Syria holds legislative elections in former Kurdish-controlled areas
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“Syria holds legislative elections in former Kurdish-controlled areas”
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The claim is reported by multiple independent news sources, including PBS and Al Jazeera, confirming that legislative elections were held in former Kurdish-controlled areas.
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“Syrian legislative elections [took place] in Hasakah and the town of Kobane”
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Both PBS and Al Jazeera specifically name Hasakah and Kobane as the locations where these legislative elections took place.
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— Parliamentary elections were held in Syria in 2025 and 2026, with further planned to be held in 2026, to elect 140 of the 210 members of the People's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–26_Syrian_parliamentary_e…
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— 11 hours ago ... Syria held follow-up parliamentary elections on Sunday in the Kurdish-majority northeastern province of Hassakeh and the town of Kobani, ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/syria-holds-legislative-e…
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— 7 hours ago ... Al Jazeera's Heidi Pett reports on the Syrian legislative elections in Hasakah and the town of Kobane.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/25/syria-hol…
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/25/syria-hol…
“Hasakah and the town of Kobane [are] areas recently reintegrated under government control after being held by pro-Kurdish fighters for more than a decade”
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Wikipedia entries confirm the '2026 northeastern Syria offensive' by the Syrian transitional government against the SDF and the 'Rojava Revolution' which began in 2011, establishing that these areas were held by pro-Kurdish forces for over a decade before the recent government offensive and subsequent elections.
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— On 13 January 2026, the Syrian transitional government launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the territories of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of No…
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— On 22 September 2014, the United States officially intervened in the Syrian civil war with the stated aim of fighting the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS) militant organization in support of the internationa…
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