Syria sets October date for first election since al-Assad’s fall

Syria's interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa meeting with a US delegation lead by the new head of the US military's Central Command in the Syrian capital Damascus. [File: AFP]

Syria will elect a new People’s Assembly on October 5, the first parliament to be chosen since the fall of Bashar al-Assad late last year.

The vote for members of the parliament will take place “across all electoral districts”, the state-run SANA news agency reported on Sunday.