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

In a video circulating on social media recently, Syrian rebels are shown storming what appears to be a substantial Captagon ...

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

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 ...

By Aryn Baker Rebel fighters in Syria said on Friday that they had found vast stockpiles of an illegal amphetamine called captagon in a Damascus warehouse. Captagon was the cornerstone of a ...

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.

Known as "poor man's cocaine," captagon is an addictive amphetamine-like stimulant banned in many countries but worth ...

The regime consistently denied links to the global captagon trade, which experts say is worth billions of dollars a year. A stimulant first produced in 1960s Germany to help treat attention ...

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 BEIRUT -- Since the fall of ...

Experts say that the drug trade stemming from Syria, the world's largest Captagon supplier, helped hasten Assad's downfall because neighboring countries, wanting to tamp down on the flood of pills ...

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 ...