Syria's Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month's presidential election in the conflict-stricken Arab country. Mohamad Jihad Lahham, the president of the court, said the candidacy applications of 55-year-old Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and two other candidates had been accepted. The court's president said in a press conference broadcast on state TV that Abdallah Salloum Abdallah, a state minister from 2016 to ...