A CBS News team gained access to a site outside Damascus which holds the precursor chemicals for Captagon, one of the most ...

Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the ...

In the fallout of this discovery, large quantities of Captagon have been destroyed, which many are concerned could push users to other stimulants and relocate industrial manufacturing to other ...

Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant that was first produced in the 1960s to treat conditions such as narcolepsy and ...

Cannabis and a million pills of of the amphetamine-like stimulant Captagon were set on fire on Wednesday in Damascus. Syria’s ...

Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one million pills of the amphetamine-like stimulant captagon, whose industrial-scale ...

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 ...

BEIRUT — 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 ...

The annual global trade in Captagon has an estimated value of $10 billion, with the ousted Assad family's annual profit reaching around $2.4 billion, according to Caroline Rose, director of the ...

What Assad's Fall Has Revealed About Syria's Trade in the Stimulant Drug Captagon BEIRUT (AP) — Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities ...

The Captagon trade began industrializing around 2018-2019 as the Assad regime — and other armed groups in Syria — invested in production facilities, warehouses and trafficking networks. This ...

“They came at night and lit the drugs on fire but couldn’t burn everything.” “From here, Captagon pills emerged to kill our people,” Abu Zihab, an activist with Hayat Tahrir al ...