Syria's newly appointed leadership has pledged to take decisive action against the growing Captagon trade, which has become a major issue in the region. The drug trade has fueled violence and instability, and the government aims to strengthen efforts to curb its production and distribution across Syria. Watch in for more details!

Syria's Captagon Trade: A Multi-Billion Dollar Problem

Syria's newly appointed leadership has pledged to take decisive action against the growing Captagon trade, which has become a major issue in the region. The drug trade has fueled violence and instability, and the government aims to strengthen efforts to curb its production and distribution across Syria. Watch in for more details!



Can Syria's New Leaders Kick Captagon Habit?

Syria's newly appointed leadership has pledged to take decisive action against the growing Captagon trade, which has become a major issue in the region. The drug trade has fueled violence and instability, and the government aims to strengthen efforts to curb its production and distribution across Syria.



Syria's New Leaders Vow To Combat Syria's Captagon Trade

Syria's newly appointed leadership has pledged to take decisive action against the growing Captagon trade, which has become a major issue in the region. The drug trade has fueled violence and instability, and the government aims to strengthen efforts to curb its production and distribution across Syria.

A lesser-known but escalating crisis is gripping the Middle East, unfolding along the Syrian-Jordanian border — captagon, an amphetamine that's become a multimillion-dollar industry.

Potent drug 'captagon' fueling conflict, crime, and party scenes across the Middle East: Report

The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday (Oct 15) on what it described as a Lebanon-based sanctions evasion network that funnels millions of dollars to Hezbollah.

US sanctions Lebanon-based network funding Hezbollah's operations

After a spate of arrests and executions for drug offences, Ibrahim, a dealer in Saudi Arabia, is not taking any chances. "I don't deal with new clients or go to the clients myself," said the 37-year-old, using a pseudonym to protect his identity.

Saudi Arabia launches crackdown on drugs with raids, executions

Jordan officials have found six million pills of Captagon, also known as the cocaine of the poor, inside two refrigerator lorries at the Iraq border. It was the most extensive drug haul the Jordanian Customs Department has ever intercepted.

Jordanian Customs Department seizes 6 million amphetamine pills from Iraq border

In Syria, after more than a decade of civil war, the narcotics business had taken place to thrive in the country already struggling. The Captagon drug has turned Syria into the world's latest narco state. Watch this video to know more.

How Captagon is turning Syria into a 'narco-state'?

Captagon is an amphetamine drug which was once prescribed for the treatment of narcolepsy and attention disorder. However, the once–legal drug has now turned into one of the major exports of Syria and according to AFP, the narcotics industry in the war-torn country is currently worth more than $10 billion.

Captagon: The one drug turning war-torn Syria into a narco state

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