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How Syria’s captagon crackdown is forcing smugglers into the skies

  • Traffickers are increasingly using GPS-equipped balloons to move pills across the Syrian-Jordanian border as authorities dismantle laboratories, tighten land routes
  • Experts warn the Assad-era captagon industry has not disappeared but fragmented, with production networks beginning to migrate to Yemen, Sudan, Iraq and Turkiye
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Can Jared Kushner revive Trump’s stalled Gaza peace plan?

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How wars are weaving a toxic legacy across the Gulf region and beyond

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How seismic activity around the world is renewing fear of a Middle East quake

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How Iran’s conflict with the US left trail of death, destruction and competing claims

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How Netanyahu’s Gaza stance pits Trump’s peace plan against his own political survival

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How a Saudi maritime defense initiative aims to protect key shipping lanes, boost regional stability

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Analysis: A look at Netanyahu’s White House visit

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Analysis: Is a return to civil war in Yemen inevitable?

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Bab Al-Mandab Strait blockade — the risks to global shipping

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Could the Saudi-US cooperation result in a nuclear Aramco?

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Can Western pressure halt Israel’s accelerating settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank?

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Why the mystery of Egypt’s pyramids still refuses to be solved

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