For a controversial, now-scrubbed-from-the-web profile of Syrian president Bashir Al-Assad’s wife Asma, someone paid a PR firm $25,000 to set up the photo shoot with the dictator’s family ...

"If they would find one device without an Emmatel sticker, they would confiscate ... that acted as its "informal executive arm". Assad's wife Asma is also allegedly linked to the company, the ...