By bne Gulf bureau Syrians in Assad government-controlled areas are heading to polling stations on July 15 to vote in parliamentary elections, the fourth time since the civil war in the country came to a halt following Russian and Iranian intervention. Despite the official vote, Syria’s opposition based in Europe and the US condemned the election as ‘absurd,’ arguing that polls organised by the government ‘only represent the ruling authority,’ meanwhile the Assad government does not acknowledge their existence. State-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency reported that voting centres across Syrian…