The regime consistently denied links to the global captagon trade, which experts say is worth billions of dollars a year. A stimulant first produced in 1960s Germany to help treat attention deficit ...

Saudi Arabia seizes 2.9m Captagon pills hidden in shea butter at Jeddah Islamic Port, with two suspects arrested after ZATCA ...

As they pushed towards victory in early December, rebel forces in Syria uncovered the true extent of the Assad regime's worst-kept secret: its involvement in the production and trade of the powerful – ...

The Syrian Interior Ministry said Sunday that anti-narcotics units had foiled an attempt to transport a large shipment of ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities of the amphetamine-like stimulant Captagon have been uncovered around the country, which ...

Imtiaz Tyab is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in London and reports for all platforms, including the "CBS Evening News," "CBS Mornings," "CBS Sunday Morning" and CBS News 24/7. He has ...

A highly addictive stimulant known as captagon that’s been popular in the Middle East for years has drawn fresh attention as efforts ramp up to stamp out the illegal trade. In 2023, US Secretary of ...

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The United Arab Emirates foiled an attempt to smuggle 13 tonnes of the addictive amphetamine captagon – worth more than $1 billion – hidden in a shipment of doors and decorative building panels, the ...

Syrian anti-drug authorities have seized and dismantled a drug packaging machine and confiscated a large shipment of narcotics during a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BEIRUT (AP) — Since the fall of former ...