Assad's brother, Hafez Makhlouf, owns 13 of them, while the wife of Assad's cousin, Rami Makhlouf, has two flats. The remaining four belong to cousins of the former President, with the properties ...

Makhlouf, who married late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in 1957, rarely appeared in public even after al-Assad became president in 1971. Al-Assad ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000 ...

The father is Hafez al- Assad- the man who got away ... Wikileaks magicked up a document just this weekend, which stated that Anisa Makhlouf, mother of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, is ...