In May, Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf, a cousin and long-time ally of President Bashar al-Assad, took a once unimaginable step. In a video he published on social media, he lashed out against Assad’s ...

(CN) - The European Court of Justice on Thursday upheld an asset freeze that has been imposed for seven years against a cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The European Council, a body ...

Makhlouf accuses Ghiyath Dalla and regime officials of manipulating civilians for personal gain amid escalating tensions in ...

AMMAN, May 3 (Reuters) - Sanctions-hit Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf on Sunday said that security forces are arresting employees at his diversified companies in what he said were "mounting pressures" on ...

On Monday, Rami Makhlouf, Syria's most powerful businessman, spent over three hours chatting with Anthony Shadid of The New York Times about the Syrian uprising at the luxurious Damascus headquarters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian court has placed a temporary travel ban on prominent businessman Rami Makhlouf, a copy of the court ...

BEIRUT (AP) — 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 ...

BEIRUT — 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 ...

The Syrian government ordered the seizure of assets belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's cousin Rami Makhlouf, one of Syria's richest men, as well as to his wife and children, according to a ...