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Syria’s longtime Foreign Minister al-Moallem dies age 79

by Bassem Mroue
| November 15, 2020 8:36 PM

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country’s most prominent faces to the outside world during the uprising against President Bashar Assad, died on Monday. He was 79.

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