by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 2, 2015 | Middle East
London and Moscow, Asharq Al-Awsat—United Nations Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem on Sunday in Damascus in order to discuss the outcomes of international talks in Vienna last week aiming to find a solution to the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 7, 2015 | Middle East
Dubai and Beirut, Reuters—Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem made his first visit to the Gulf in more than four years on Thursday, meeting his Omani counterpart in Muscat for talks on ways to end the civil war in his country. The visit, his first to the...
by Sami Amara | Nov 27, 2014 | Middle East
Moscow, Asharq Al-Awsat—Moscow has proposed a new round of negotiations, dubbed Geneva III, between the Bashar Al-Assad government and the Syrian opposition, during a state visit to Russia by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem, well-informed Russian sources...
by Tariq Alhomayed | Aug 27, 2014 | Opinion
As was expected, and as I predicted in an article last week, the Assad regime rushed to try and exploit the war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to serve its own interests. This time, it was Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem who announced that...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 24, 2014 | Middle East
Geneva/Beirut/London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Negotiations on the Syrian crisis in Geneva appear to have suffered another setback on Friday as a planned face-to-face meeting between the Syrian government delegation and Western-backed opposition groups scheduled for later...