LONDON: Syrian authorities seized 600,000 captagon pills and arrested two people in their latest crackdown on drugs networks.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said that the operation was carried out in Homs and Idlib provinces and also led to the confiscation of weapons, ammunition and grenades, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
Since the fall of the Bashar Assad regime in 2024, anti-narcotics authorities in the Syrian Arab Republic have increased their efforts to combat cross-border criminal networks.
During Assad’s presidency Syria became a hub for the production and distribution of drugs like captagon and the government largely ignored the concerns of neighboring countries about the negative effects that this was having on the region.
Since then authorities across the Arab region have intercepted at least 177 million captagon tablets, according to figures published last year by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
