'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry

'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry

[The Daily Star] - 03/3/2025

Piles of documents seen by AFP expose a vast economic empire that Maher al-Assad and his network of profiteers built by pillaging a country already impoverished by nearly 14 years of civil war.



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