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A handout picture provided by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem (C-R) meeting with United Nations special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (C-L), during a brief visit in the Syrian capital Damascus on November 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/HO/ SANA)
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Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf Bin Alawi (R) meets with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem (L) in Muscat, Oman, on August 6, 2015. (EPA/HAMID AL-QASMI)
Syrian FM in rare Oman visit amid heightened diplomacy
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...Caption:
Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem (3rd L) speaks to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (2nd R) and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (3rd R) during a meeting in Sochi on November 26, 2014. (Reuters/Mihail Metzel)
Moscow proposes Geneva III talks during Syrian FM visit: Russian sources
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...Caption:
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on July 16, 2014, shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being sworn in for a new seven-year term, during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / HO / SANA)
Opinion: Assad’s ISIS Gambit II
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...Caption:
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem, third left, arrives for the start of negotiations at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, January 24, 2014. Al-Mouallem will meet UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)