The appointment of Ankara’s new envoy to Moscow coincided with the Kremlin’s announcement that the Russian president will soon visit Turkey. Newly appointed Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan named the ministry’s spokesperson Tanju Bilgic as his country’s new ambassador to Moscow on Friday, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu News Agency reported. Bilgic’s …

Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi also discussed Syria’s re-integration, prospects for normalization with Israel and talks to end Yemen’s war in an interview with Al-Monitor. Syria and the United States are exchanging messages with the help of Oman over the fate of missing American journalist Austin Tice, the Gulf …

On May 28, the Middle East affairs working group of the Russian and Chinese Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) convened in Chengdu, China. The meeting was chaired by the Russian MFA’s Middle East bureau chief, Alexander Kinshchak, and the Chinese MFA’s Asian and African Affairs department head, Wang Di. In …