Captagon: Traffic Is Reinvented Since the Fall of Bashar Al-Assad

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Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Syria has been trying to rid itself of its image of "narco-state", inherited from a decade of industrial captive production. The new authorities are multiplying media operations: destroyed laboratories, record seizures. But the traffic has not been extinguished: it has dispersed, relocated, and continues to thrive, from Sudan to Yemen, through Iraq and Lebanon.