Stockpiles of the amphetamine-like drug fenethylline, known by its brand name Captagon, were recently discovered by ...

Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant that was first produced in the 1960s to treat conditions such as narcolepsy and ...

Worth approximately $10 billion, the illicit captagon drug trade served as a financial lifeline for the Assad regime in Syria ...

Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria, according to a 2023 study by the nonprofit ...

Over the past decade, the al-Assad government has been accused of being the principal purveyor of Captagon, a highly ...

Captagon is a brand name for the synthetic stimulant fenethylline. It was originally used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy, but many countries banned it ...

Captagon was briefly approved in the United States before becoming a controlled substance in the 1980s. The drug remained ...

The drug has the active ingredient fenethylline and was initially marketed for conditions including ADHD and the sleeping ...

Social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President Bashar al ...

Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - A Syrian rebel fighter holds a container of pills of Captagon, a brand name of the drug ...

PHOTO: Pills of Captagon, a brand name of the drug psychostimulant Fenethylline, are pictured after their discovery at a drug manufacturing facility in the city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta ...