Captagon

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Discovery of vast Syrian drug lab reveals secrets of illicit captagon ... (Reuters)

The industrial-scale drug lab sat just up a hill from a main road on the western edge of Damascus, the city that was the seat of power for the Assad family ...

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What is Captagon, the Illegal Stimulant Made in Assad's Syria? (The New York Times)

The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria's biggest export during its 13-year civil war.

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Syrian rebels seize vast haul of banned drug Captagon, country's ... (The Guardian)

Drug dwarfed all legal exports put together, with Assad's brother widely believed to be power behind lucrative trade.

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What Assad's Overthrow Revealed About Syrian Regime's ... (Eurasia Review)

For more than a decade, the illegal drug Captagon has been mass produced in Syria, in laboratories either run by or with the blessing of a regime hard hit by ...

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Captagon, once a pharma drug, now linked to Assad regime's fall in ... (Hindustan Times)

Syrian rebels seized large stockpiles of the illicit drugs in the country at military bases and distribution hubs, exposing Assad regime's dark pages.

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Captagon: From Pharmaceutical Drug To Key Factor In Assad ... (NewsX)

Learn how Captagon, a once-legal pharmaceutical drug, became a key factor in the downfall of Bashar al-Assad's regime and Syria's rise as a narco-state.

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What is the drug captagon and how is it linked to Syria's fallen Assad ... (Medical Xpress)

After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered.

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British-Made chemicals found in Assad regime's Captagon factory in ... (Kurdistan24)

The Observatory of Political and Economic Networks - which monitors Captagon trade in the Arab world - stated that Assad's regime earned an average of $2.4 ...

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Fall of Syria's Assad reveals the Captagon industry that fuelled it (Burlington Hawk Eye)

It was then turned into a factory manufacturing the highly addictive Captagon amphetamines. Western governments estimate the illegal trade in the pills ...

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What Is Drug Captagon, How Is It Linked To Syria's Fallen Assad Regime? (NDTV)

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Assad made billions from Captagon, but what now for his drug ... (ABC News)

The Syrian regime was also one of the world's biggest drug syndicates. What happens to the multi-billion-dollar drug trade now that the "narco-state" has ...

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Inside a Syrian Captagon factory: evidence uncovered of Assad's ... (The National)

The National sees unprecedented evidence of large-scale production after regime forces flee drug factories.

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Discovery of vast Syrian drug lab reveals secrets of illicit captagon ... (USA TODAY)

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

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