Syria’s telecommunications authority on Sunday said a deadline for a cellular company owned by the cousin of President Bashar Assad to pay back its debts to the state has ended, adding that legal …
Syrian tycoon says government ordered him to step down from mobile operator
Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf issued a video statement on Sunday saying officials had told him to quit as head of mobile operator Syriatel, in the latest twist in a tussle over assets and taxes that has …
Iran’s Khamenei says US will be expelled from Iraq, Syria
Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday that the United States will be expelled from Iraq and Syria and alleged that even Washington’s allies “abhor” it now. The US “will not be staying either in Iraq or …
Online English classes revive ties severed by war in Syria
A group of Syrian teachers from opposition-held areas is bringing back their English language school online, recreating a community that was shattered by the country’s grueling civil war …
Syria: Assad cousin Makhlouf refuses government demand to resign from telecoms empire
Top Syria tycoon Rami Makhlouf on Sunday said the regime was piling pressure on him and threatening to arrest him and close his telecommunications empire unless he hands over profits. Makhlouf, a …
Syrian tycoon rejects government demand he step down from mobile operator
Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said on Sunday that authorities had set a deadline for him to resign from top mobile operator Syriatel or they would revoke its licence but that he would not step down. In …
UPDATE 1-Syrian tycoon rejects gov’t demand he step down from mobile operator
Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said on Sunday that authorities had set a deadline for him to resign from top mobile operator Syriatel or they would revoke its licence but that he would not step down. In …
More than 200,000 people flee homes amid latest Syria offensive
The refugee crisis is growing tonight in Syria. More than two months after President Trump proclaimed the U.S. mission in Syria effectively over, Syrian and Russian forces are pounding rebel-held …
Trump faces foreign policy challenges in Syria and Iran
President Trump is warning Syria and its allies Russia and Iran not to kill innocent civilians in Syria’s Idlib Province. Meanwhile in Iran, officials shut down internet service to try to stop …
Syrian President Bashar Assad faces rare dissent from a top financial ally, cousin Rami Makhlouf
In the pecking order of figures close to Syria’s government leaders, Rami Makhlouf operated at the top. Arguably the country’s richest businessman with an estimated fortune worth billions of dollars …