Upcoming Syria Poll Won’t Include Restive Suweida Province, Officials Say

Slated for next month, the parliamentary poll will also exclude two provinces in northeastern Syria that remain largely outside the control of Damascus.

Security forces take aim from a rooftop during clashes in the majority-Druze Suweida province, Syria, on July 16, 2025. Bakr Alaksem/AFP via Getty Images

Syria’s first parliamentary election under its new Islamist leadership, set for September, will not include the strife-torn southern province of Suweida and the northeastern Raqqa and Hasaka provinces, according to Syrian officials.

Over the weekend, Syrian news outlet Ekhbariya, citing an electoral commission official, reported that voting in the three provinces would be postponed until “appropriate conditions” for conducting polls are in place.