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Syrians voted in a parliamentary election on Monday touted by authorities as a milestone of political reform but dismissed by the opposition as a facade while people are killed every day in an anti-government uprising.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suffered a major setback after his supporters fared badly in Iranian parliamentary elections.

Results for Ghazni province are withheld because a fair tally is considered impossible. Protests break out over the disqualification of some candidates. Afghanistan's main electoral body on Wednesday released what were billed as the final results of September's trouble-plagued parliamentary election.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman Monday said it was too early to judge the quality of a parliamentary vote at the weekend, with the election watchdog saying it expected thousands of complaints to be heard.

A string of attacks hit Afghanistan's parliamentary election on Saturday, after the Taliban vowed to disrupt a poll that is a crucial test for the credibility of the government and security forces.

Voters in Afghanistan are due to cast their ballots in key parliamentary elections, despite fears of violence and threats from Taliban militants.

President Hamid Karzai accused the West of trying to ruin Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections this year, in a showdown over a U.N.-backed fraud watchdog.

When the votes were all finally counted, Iraq’s election left almost everything unresolved, from who would finally rule the country to whether American combat troops would be able to leave on schedule by August.

The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer.

The top American military commander in Iraq on Monday praised the Iraqi military’s performance during Sunday’s parliamentary election.