The regime’s trade in captagon, a methamphetamine-like drug, helped sustain its rule and fueled war and addiction across the ...

Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria, according to a 2023 study by the nonprofit ...

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 ...

The Assad regime long denied involvement in the Captagon trade, but hundreds of thousands of pills discovered by Syrian ...

In the city of Douma, 10 kilometres northeast of Syria’s capital of Damascus, warehouses storing thousands of captagon pills ...

画面中成堆摆放的东西，是一种名叫芬乃他林（Captagon）的违禁品，在中东地区它也有“穷人可卡因”的称呼。芬乃他林，是一种合成苯丙胺型兴奋剂，最初是在上世纪60年代被德国一家制药公司生产出来的，用于治疗注意力缺陷障碍等问题，但缺点却也十分明显，那就 ...

Assad’s drug empire crumbles as insurgents uncover millions in captagon pills and reveal Syria’s dark role in the Middle East ...

Toot's factory was confiscated by the Assad government in 2018 when Douma fell into government hands after fierce battles. It ...

The Syrian regime was also one of the world's biggest drug syndicates. What happens to the multi-billion-dollar drug trade ...

Syrian rebels seized large stockpiles of the illicit drugs in the country at military bases and distribution hubs, exposing ...

The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria’s biggest export during its 13-year civil war.

Videos have been shared on social media of Syrian factories containing a highly addictive drug. Captagon's said to have ...