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 experts say fed a $10 billion annual global trade in the highly addictive drug.

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Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the production of the highly addictive drug Captagon.

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Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the production of the highly addictive drug Captagon. Militias, warlords and the government of Bashar Assad transformed Captagon from a small-scale operation run by small criminal groups into a billion-dollar industrial revenue stream. The recent ousting of Assad has disrupted these networks and has give…

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Among the sites used for the industrial-scale manufacture of the drug are the Mazzeh airbase in Damascus, a car trading company in Latakia, and a former potato chip factory outside the Syrian capital, seized by government forces in 2018. “Al-Assad's collaborators controlled this site. After the fall of the regime, I came here and found it burning. They came at night and set fire to the drugs, but they couldn't burn everything,” Firas al-Toot, th…

Entre os locais utilizados para o fabrico à escala industrial da droga encontram-se a base aérea de Mazzeh, em Damasco, uma empresa de comércio de automóveis em Latakia e uma antiga fábrica de batatas fritas nos arredores da capital síria, apreendida pelas forças governamentais em 2018.   "Os colaboradores de al-Assad controlavam este sítio. Depois da queda do regime vim aqui e encontrei-o a arder. Vieram à noite e pegaram fogo às drogas, mas nã…

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