14 December 06:45
Syrian rebels have uncovered an industrial-scale drug lab on the outskirts of Damascus for the production of captagon.
Raluca Ioana Draghici

International
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The group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has uncovered an industrial-scale drug lab on the outskirts of Damascus for the production of the amphetamine-like stimulant captagon. The annual captagon trade is estimated to be worth billions of dollars, and Western governments have linked the illicit trade to the Assad family. The fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime has for the first time allowed journalists to inspect evidence of a veritable drug empire in Syria.
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