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The Iraqi government’s efforts to raise awareness on the dangers of narcotics and to curb drug trafficking are yet to yield effective solutions, as the country has been suffering from a wide spread of drug abuse and trafficking, since the ousting of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003. Well-informed officials said…

The US House of Representatives passed Tuesday a bill to counter drug production and trafficking and dismantle networks linked to the Assad regime in Syria. The bipartisan bill said that the Captagon trade linked to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria is a transnational security threat, noting that the…

Syrian counter-narcotics units seized a record haul of 2.3 tons of the amphetamine-type stimulant known as captagon, the interior ministry announced Wednesday. Law enforcement officers had earlier discovered 249 kilos of captagon hidden in steel machinery inside containers ready to leave the Mediterranean port of Latakia, AFP said. The ensuing…

Damascus (AFP) - Syrian counter-narcotics units seized a record haul of 2.3 tonnes of the amphetamine-type stimulant known as captagon, the interior ministry announced Wednesday.

The Jordanian Border Guard foiled early on Sunday an infiltration and smuggling attempt along the kingdom's border with Syria, reported the state news agency Petra. An official military source in the General Command of the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army said the army applied the rules of engagement with the group…

Syria is the Middle East’s main producer of the drug Captagon and Saudi Arabia is the main consumer market.

Improvement in relations between Lebanon and Gulf nations including Saudi Arabia come before May’s general elections.

Trade in the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon in the Middle East grew exponentially in 2021 to top $5 billion, posing an increasing health and security risk to the region, a report said. Research by the New Lines Institute, seen by AFP, paints an alarming picture of the impact booming captagon production…

Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - On a table covered in a green sheet, two Saudi officers pour out thousands of white amphetamine pills they have just seized from a neighbourhood in the kingdom's Red Sea city of Jeddah.