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Ahmed Abu Yakin is with Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, one of the main groups in charge of the country after Assad fled on Dec. 8. Yakin says this massive underground stash of Captagon was ...
DOUMA, Syria - 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 of power for the Assad family, which long denied any ...
A social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President ...
The drug export was one of the main sources of income for the government of Bashar al-Assad, helping it to prop up the economy during the Syrian Civil War. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After the fall of the Assad regime the new Syrian transitional government ordered the cessation of the drug trade; the flow had reportedly reduced by at least 90% shortly ...
Maher plays the central role in coordinating Syrian regime's production of illegal drugs and its trafficking to foreign countries. Syria has the World’s largest captagon production. According to Jordanian journalist Salah Malkawi: Commanders of militias, security agencies, military forces are involved in the drug smuggling operation.
Drug trafficking worsens with war, Assad said, and so the responsibility of the Captagon problem in Syria falls on the “countries that contributed to the chaos in Syria, and not the Syrian state.”
After the fall of Al-Assad's government in Syria, Captagon trade fell by around 90%. [20] The Assad regime's annual fenethylline revenues were estimated to have been worth US$57 billion in 2022, about three times the total trade of the entire Mexican illicit drug market. [21] [22] [6]
The drug trade has been a source of tension between Jordan and Syria, with the Jordanian air force reportedly carrying out strikes in Syria’s south targeting alleged smugglers and drug ...