Assad's regime in December 2024 led to the uncovering of the massive industrial scale of Captagon manufacturing facilities - ...

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 ...

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

As they pushed towards victory in early December, rebel forces in Syria uncovered the true extent of the Assad regime's worst ...

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

The annual trade in captagon is worth billions of dollars a year, experts say, and Western governments have linked the ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...