After toppling Bashar al Assad in December, Syria’s new leaders pledged to crack down on the captagon trade, which had ...

Evidence of the Assad regime’s sponsorship of the Captagon industry is overwhelming, the report published in May said. The Security Office of the 4th Armored Division of the Syrian Arab Army ...

A 2022 AFP investigation found that Syria under Assad had become a narco state, with the $10-billion captagon industry dwarfing all other exports and funding both his regime and many of his enemies.

Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria. The Assad regime in Syria came toppling down in lightning speed after rebel forces led a days-long offensive across the ...

The country's economy, which had maintained a brisk pace of growth before the uprising ... the World Bank has said. The total market value of Captagon of Syrian origin is estimated between ...

The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria ... of the overall market. According to the New Lines Institute, a New York-based policy group, global captagon sales are ...

Black-market captagon is now nearly exclusively manufactured in Syria and surrounding countries such as Lebanon. It’s mostly used in the Middle East,including recreationally in some Gulf states.

So when Syria's civil war erupted in 2011, the already weak economy imploded. President Bashar al-Assad was desperate for money, and the country decided to make itself a hub of the Captagon trade.

Its manufacture is relatively straightforward and inexpensive, making it an obvious target for the black-market drug trade. It is one of the most commonly used illicit drugs in Syria. A recent report ...

Experts say the change in Syria might create an opportunity to dismantle the Captagon industry. How did Syria build its Captagon empire? Captagon was first developed in Germany in the 1960s as a ...

Experts say the change in Syria might create an opportunity to dismantle the Captagon industry. Captagon was first developed in Germany in the 1960s as a prescription stimulant for conditions like ...