Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma
© Reuters/SANA Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma cast their votes in the country's presidential elections at a polling station in Damascus pm June 3, 2014, in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA.
A group of Americans, who observed the Syrian presidential election first hand, reported at the United Nations on what they witnessed.~ As a group, they described the election in Syria as successful, free and transparent.~ They also called for an end to foreign support for anti-Damascus mercenary terrorists.