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Assad’s gone but Captagon hangs on

Arab Digest Newsletter / / Captagon, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Trump, Türkiye, USA / Leave a Comment

Ref: AD-2745

Summary: the family of the Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad made billions running the Captagon trade but his overthrow does not mean the end of the drug’s production in Syria and other Middle East countries.

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