The Captagon trade began industrialising around 2018-2019 as the Assad regime — and other armed groups in Syria -- invested ...

Inside a so-called "soap factory" on the outskirts of Damascus, rebel fighters found "millions of Captagon pills and ...

Stockpiles of the amphetamine-like drug fenethylline, known by its brand name Captagon, were recently discovered by opposition forces in Syria in the wake of former president Bashar al-Assad’s fall ...

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

For more than a decade, fenethylline, a synthetic stimulant known by the brand name Captagon, has been produced in Syrian ...

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

Often called 'chemical courage,' it is used in conflict zones to boost soldiers’ stamina and concentration and is also ...

Syrian rebels uncovered large captagon stockpiles linked to the fallen al-Assad regime’s military headquarters. Originally a ...

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

A Syrian rebel fighter holds a container of Captagon pills, a brand name of the psychostimulant Fenethylline, discovered at a ...