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

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.

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 ...

Since its emergence in the early years of the Syrian Civil War, ‘Captagon’, a cheap amphetamine, has had a seismic impact on both the societies and geopolitics of the Middle East. More than a year on ...

Rebel fighters said they found a drug factory linked to Maher al-Assad, widely accused of being the power behind the lucrative captagon trade — Aris MESSINIS The dramatic collapse of Bashar al-Assad's ...

After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered. The stockpiles, found by Syrian rebels, are believed to be linked to ...

All this hints at a more sinister story inside; this was a factory for a highly addictive drug called Captagon. For the past several years, the regime of Syria's ousted president, Bashar al-Assad ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian interior ministry announced on Wednesday that security forces in Damascus countryside province seized weapons, ammunition, and 600,000 Captagon pills intended ...

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 ...