Another factory containing many bags of the amphetamine-type stimulant Captagon and other drugs was discovered near Damascus, ...

Its chemical name is fenethylline, but it is generally known by the brand name under which it was first marketed. The drug ...

Over the past decade, the al-Assad government has been accused of being the principal purveyor of Captagon, a highly ...

Stockpiles of the amphetamine-like drug fenethylline, known by its brand name Captagon, were recently discovered by opposition forces in Syria in the wake of former president Bashar al-Assad’s ...

In October 2024, Ukrainian forces said that they destroyed an expensive Russian air defense system. This was not an unusual ...

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.

In the wake of Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, footage began circulating that allegedly showed production hubs in Syria for the amphetamine-like drug fenethylline, now commonly known by one of its former ...

Captagon is a brand name for the synthetic stimulant fenethylline. It was originally used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy, but many countries banned it ...

Stockpiles of the amphetamine-like drug fenethylline, known by its brand name Captagon, were recently discovered by opposition forces in Syria in the wake of former president Bashar al-Assad’s fall ...