What is the drug captagon and how is it linked to Syria's fallen Assad regime?
After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered.
What Is Captagon, the Illegal Stimulant That Made al-Assad’s Syria a Narcostate?
The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria’s biggest export during its 13-year civil war.
Inside Assad’s Captagon drug-smuggling empire and how it funded brutal Syrian regime
In the city of Douma, 10 kilometres northeast of Syria’s capital of Damascus, warehouses storing thousands of captagon pills ...
Discovery of vast Syrian drug lab reveals secrets of illicit captagon trade
The industrial-scale drug lab sat just up a hill from a main road on the western edge of Damascus, the city that was the seat ...
What is Captagon, the synthetic stimulant that earned billions for the Assad regime in Syria?
The Assad regime in Syria came toppling down in lightning speed after rebel forces led a days-long offensive across the country and captured the capital, Damascus, on Sunday, with President Bashar ...