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Captagon is now Syria's biggest export by far, dwarfing all its legal exports put together, according to estimates drawn from official data. An amphetamine derived from a once-legal treatment for narcolepsy and attention deficit disorder, it has become a huge drug in the Gulf, with Saudi Arabia by far the biggest market

Since December 20, cannabis has been washing up on the shores of free and occupied Famagusta, specifically over 100 kilos of packaged Indian hemp were collected by police.

President Joe Biden signed into law, on 23 December 2022, the Countering Assad’s Proliferation Trafficking And Garnering Of Narcotics Act, acronym “CAPTAGON Act” (H.R. 6265).Officially, it is aimed at disrupting the trafficking of this synthetic drug between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

President Joe Biden signed into law, on 23 December 2022, the Countering Assad’s Proliferation Trafficking And Garnering Of Narcotics (...) [Voltaire Network]

According to a 20 December report released by Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, the US is currently attempting to rebuild Liwa Thuwwar al-Raqqa (Raqqa Revolutionary Brigade) - a former Islamist militia opposed to Damascus. The report states that the...

Areas around there has been jihadi central. you talk about a combination of geography, the several country kilometers of border between turkey and syria and iraq that has been a flowing point for all the terrorists going into those two countries for the last decade plus. you are talking about border security. it was not real good until within the last year. you are talking about a government that really blindly looked the other way at times when terrorists were transgressing the border. now what...

Countering assad and syria, somewhat going on it on its own launching forces across the border as they have done fighting against not only the terrorists that were fighting assad but also the kurdish freedom fighters and doing all of this while not coordinating much with the kpuns that they have often been considered allied with. all of nato and all of the u.s. so this is going to become more complex as the days go on. i tell you you have got to get a score card to figure out who the players are...