New details of notorious Captagon drug trade exposed with collapse of Syria's Assad regime
A CBS News team gained access to a site outside Damascus which holds the precursor chemicals for Captagon, one of the most ...
What Assad’s fall has revealed about Syria’s trade in the stimulant drug Captagon
Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the ...
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How Syria's Assad propped up the Captagon drug trade
Analysts estimate Bashar al-Assad's regime raked in $5 billion per year from the Captagon drug trade, dwarfing Syria's ...
What is Captagon, the synthetic stimulant that earned billions for the Assad regime in Syria?
Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria, according to a 2023 study by the nonprofit ...
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 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 ...
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Syria made billions trafficking the drug Captagon. Will it continue?
As Syria's economy collapsed during the civil war, the country became something of narco-state. The now-ousted regime was estimated to earn billions annually from ...
Fall of Syria's Assad reveals the Captagon industry that fuelled it
Toot's factory was confiscated by the Assad government in 2018 when Douma fell into government hands after fierce battles. It ...
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Syria made billions trafficking the drug Captagon. Will it continue?
The now-ousted regime was estimated to earn billions annually from trafficking a drug known as Captagon. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news organization ...
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What is Captagon, the synthetic stimulant that earned billions for the Assad regime in Syria?
Other close watchers of Syria have also pointed to another key factor: a tiny white pill with a pair of interlocking half-moons on one side -- a synthetic and amphetamine that is wildly popular in the ...