Syria's Assad propped up the Captagon drug trade

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 popular street drugs in the Middle East and beyond.
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 production of the highly addictive drug Captagon.
Did the synthetic stimulant Captagon help lead to Assad regime’s downfall in Syria?
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.
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 official budget and making it a lifeline for the bankrupted country. Imtiaz Tyab has new details about what was discovered about the ...
Assad's fall upends the Captagon drug empire
Inside a so-called "soap factory" on the outskirts of Damascus, rebel fighters found "millions of Captagon pills and industrial quantities of precursor chemicals", said The Guardian – evidence of what was long alleged to be the "world’s largest Captagon production and export operation".
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.
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 was then turned into a factory manufacturing the highly addictive Captagon amphetamines.
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Assad’s fall reveals Captagon drug trade in Syria: Everything you need to know
The Captagon trade began industrialising around 2018-2019 as the Assad regime — and other armed groups in Syria -- invested ...
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Video points to Assad regime’s involvement in large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs
a close associate of Maher al-Assad who was described as a “key drug producer and facilitator” of captagon production in Syria. On Sunday, after arriving in Damascus, the leader of the forces ...
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Inside a Captagon factory in Syria that helped keep the Assad regime afloat
We take you inside one of Syria's factories that produced captagon, the illegal stimulant that helped keep the Assad regime afloat. Copyright 2024 NPR The biggest ...
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S.E. Cupp: With Assad out, what we must do help save Syria
This was a long day coming, and frankly one I never thought I’d see. Thirteen years ago, Syria’s Bashar Assad unleashed a reign of unmitigated terror on his own ...