In response to mounting security threats, Syrian authorities have intensified efforts to combat drug smuggling, focusing on ...

The captagon trade has spread from Syria to Yemen, bankrolling Houthi terrorism. Washington should pay attention.

Saudi Arabia is carrying out more executions than at any time since the 1990s as the kingdom cracks down hard on the ...

The collapse of the fenethylline market in Syria has seen producers look for new markets, including the battlefields of ...

Jordan's army said on Saturday its forces killed two armed people after foiling an "infiltration attempt" on its border with Syria the day before. The Jordanian Armed Forces did not elaborate further ...

Syria drug bust. Joint operation in Damascus nets major smuggling ring, with arrests made. Iraqi PM al-Sudani oversaw ...

Iraqi counter-narcotics forces seized more than 1.35 million Captagon pills during a raid in Syria's capital, in a rare and significant cross-border operation, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on ...

From January to June, Saudi Arabia has already executed nearly 200 people, with the number expected to break last year’s ...

Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria, according to a 2023 study by the nonprofit Observatory of Political and Economic Networks.

Captagon is cheap to produce, and Syria, at this point, has no real border control or law enforcement. Thus, labs can turn out millions of the little pills for $5 to $20 a dose, using legal ...

Captagon is now by far Syria's biggest export, dwarfing all its legal exports put together, according to estimates drawn from official data by AFP. An amphetamine derived from a once-legal treatment ...

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