SHOTLIST:

WASHINGTON DC, US (SEPT. 19, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL)

1. SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ASAAD AL-SHAIBANI, ARRIVING AT SYRIAN EMBASSY AND GREETING CROWD

2. SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ASAAD AL-SHAIBANI RAISING SYRIAN FLAG / SHAIBANI ADDRESSING CROWD (Arabic)

3. SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, ASAAD AL-SHAIBANI SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic)

4. SHAIBANI WALKING AMONG CROWD

5. SHAIBANI SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Arabic) (TWO SHOTS)

6. SHAIBANI SPEAKING TO REPORTER (English)

7. VARIOUS OF AL-SHAIBANI POSING FOR PHOTOS WITH PEOPLE / CHATTING WITH PEOPLE

8. SHAIBANI LEAVING

9. VARIOUS OF SYRIAN FLAG / PEOPLE AROUND EMBASSY WASHINGTON DC, US - SEPT. 19: The flag of the Syria was raised by Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at the Syrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Sept. 19, marking the first time since the building’s closure on March 18, 2014.

Shaibani arrived in Washington, DC, on Thursday, marking the first visit by a Syrian foreign minister to the US in more than 25 years.

The historic visit comes as Damascus seeks to expand diplomatic engagement abroad following years of isolation during the Syrian civil war and following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia in late 2024, ending the Baath Party’s decades-long grip on power that began in 1963. A new transitional administration led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa was formed in Syria in January following Assad’s fall.