[Rudaw] Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country’s most prominent faces to the outside world during the uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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, died Monday. He was 79.
Al-Muallem, who served as ambassador to Washington for nine years starting in 1990 during Syria’s on-and-off peace talks with Israel, was a close confidant of Assad known for his loyalty and hard-line position against the opposition.