Assad's fall upends Captagon drug empire

What Assad's fall has revealed about Syria's trade in the stimulant drug Captagon
Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities of the amphetamine-like stimulant Captagon have been uncovered around the country, which experts say fed a $10 billion annual global trade in the highly addictive drug.
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.
Assad's fall upends the Captagon drug empire
As they pushed towards victory in early December, rebel forces in Syria uncovered the true extent of the Assad regime's worst-kept secret: its involvement in the production and trade of the powerful – and illegal – stimulant, Captagon. Inside a so ...
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 have been unearthed by the rebels scouring areas once controlled by the Assad regime and its allies. The warehouse, according to experts, may be one of the biggest captagon labs ever seen.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Video points to Assad regime’s involvement in large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs
If confirmed, the discovery would support claims by the United States and others that the Assad regime had been involved in actively exporting the drug. Captagon has become a significant social ...
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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 ...