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

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

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

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

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

Kuwait’s Interior Ministry has thwarted an attempt to smuggle nearly four million Captagon tablets into the country, valued ...

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 ...

Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant that was first produced in the 1960s to treat conditions such as narcolepsy and ADHD. Its chemical name is fenethylline, but it is generally known by the ...

As part of ongoing nationwide efforts to combat drug trafficking and safeguard public health, Kuwait’s Criminal Security ...

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 ...

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

Captagon was first developed in Germany in the 1960s as a prescription stimulant for conditions like narcolepsy. It was later outlawed due to heart issues and its addictive properties.