The Captagon Trafficking Network: How Assad Turned Syria into a Drug State
Since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, rebel HTS fighters in Syria have discovered a large stockpile of the illegal drug captagon in several warehouses in and around the capital, Damascus. The Assad family was at the head of a large drug-trafficking network that smuggled drugs into a number of Middle Eastern countries – the UAE, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia – and turned Syria into essentially a narco-state. FRANCE 24’s Julia Sieger tells us more.
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