SYRIANS went to the polls yesterday to elect a new parliament in defiance of foreign-funded revolutionaries and terrorist armies.

Around 7,300 polling stations across the country opened at 7am as voters elected 250 MPs from over 3,500 candidates despite the ongoing civil war.

President Bashar al-Assad and his London-born investment banker wife Asma al-Assad cast their votes together at the Assad Library in Damascus in the morning.