Damascus, Jan 19, 2025 (AFP) - Syria destroys millions of captagon pills, other drugs: official

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2025-01-19

Syrian security forces destroyed seized drugs Sunday including around 100 million pills of the amphetamine-like stimulant captagon -- whose production and trafficking flourished under ousted president Bashar al-Assad, an official said. A 2022 AFP investigation found that Syria under Assad had become a narco state, with the $10-billion captagon industry dwarfing all other exports and funding both his regime and many of his enemies. "We destroyed l......

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