Tag: captagon

• Global News Podcast: The Global Story: Syria’s illegal drug empire

  February 9, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/TXJ6uNf Ousted President Bashar al-Assad has been linked to Syria’s multi-billion dollar Captagon trade. Rebel leaders vow to end it—but what will it take to break the country's link… more ›

• What will happen to al-Assad’s Captagon empire now?

  December 18, 2024

  Following its ousting of the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last week, the opposition alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) invited international reporters to witness vast stockpiles and… more ›

• Syria seizes hummus bowls made out of crushed Captagon pills

  September 6, 2022

  Captagon was the trade name of a drug initially patented in Germany in the early 1960s. It contained an amphetamine-type stimulant called fenethylline, used to treat attention deficit and narcolepsy,… more ›

• ‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state

  May 7, 2021

  In the summer of 2015 a businessman in the Syrian province of Latakia was approached by a powerful security chief, seeking a favour. The official wanted the merchant, an importer… more ›