Authorities seize captagon shipments in Lebanon, Syria
Authorities in Lebanon and Syria have seized a haul of four million captagon pills, which were being smuggled to Saudi Arabia.
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Authorities in Lebanon and Syria have seized a haul of four million captagon pills, which were being smuggled to Saudi Arabia.
Jordan's army says its troops killed at least 27 armed drug smugglers and wounded others as they crossed border from Syria with amphetamines in a snowstorm.
"It is not like the Syrian government are looking the other way while drug cartels do their thing. They are the drug cartel.”
The five Syrians pulled from their homes by secret police on the same night last year were not insurgents, spies or suspected of being disloyal to the country's president, Bashar al-Assad. Instead, they were targets in a desperate new phase of Assad's battle to survive: the hunt for cash.
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