Assad's rule, the illegal drug captagon became Syria’s largest export. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

COLUMN. Saudi Arabia, the world's leading consumer of captagon, is backing the new Syrian regime's campaign to eradicate the ...

Four million Captagon pills have been seized by Syrian authorities after they were found concealed inside thousands of metal ...

According to the Syrian Interior Ministry, the pills were discovered in port warehouses and had been "professionally hidden" ...

Authorities discovered ‘warehouse containing press used to manufacture Captagon pills, along with large quantity of pills ...

It had apparently come from Syria. Observers immediately asked: Why were such large shipments of Captagon still being discovered, several months after Syria's authoritarian Assad regime was ousted? In ...

Due to its massive usage among the terrorists in MENA region, the Captagon drug has been touted by media as The Amphetamine ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish security forces (Asayish) in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Wednesday that they seized over 2.7 million Captagon pills in Qamishli. “A huge quantity of ...

Syria, awash in weapons and trauma and with ... as the Assad regime did with the illegal amphetamine captagon. Iran, a longtime ally of the regime and an enemy of the new government, could return ...

Syria's new interim government pledged to crack down on the illicit drug trade that the country's former dictator enriched himself with. But somehow large shipments of Captagon pills are still ...

STORY: :: Kurdish security forces seize more than 2 million captagon pills in northeast Syria :: Qamishli, Syria :: March 25, 2025 :: Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant popular among the Middle ...