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Saudi FM warns against ‘explosive growth’ of synthetic drugs in Arab world
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Monday warned against the dangers of the “explosive growth” of synthetic drugs in the Middle East, voicing Riyadh’s ... Saudi Arabia -
Operation Storm: UAE arrests six for smuggling Captagon worth over $1 billion
UAE authorities stopped a smuggling attempt of Captagon worth over $1 billion (AED 3.87 billion) in street value, according to a statement by a ... Gulf -
Arrests made in Jeddah after over two million Captagon pills found in Baklava box
Saudi authorities arrested two individuals after they uncovered 2,242,560 Captagon pills hidden in boxes of baklava at the Jeddah Islamic Port, the ... Saudi Arabia -
Syrian President Assad discusses renewed Arab ties and challenges in recent interview
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday tamped down expectations for his country’s renewed ties with the Arab world, in his first televised ... Middle East -
Iraq seizes 35 kilos of opium, 236 kilos of captagon
Iraq said Thursday it had arrested a man in possession of 35 kilograms (77 pounds) of opium and more half a million captagon pills weighing 236 ... Middle East -
Saudi Arabia confiscates over 150,000 Captagon pills hidden in cars
Saudi Arabia’s Zakat, Tax, and Customs Authority (ZATCA) has confiscated 151,139 Captagon pills found hidden in cars that arrived in the Kingdom ... Saudi Arabia -
Saudi authorities foil attempt to smuggle over 6 mln amphetamine pills
Saudi authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle 6,072,291 amphetamine pills concealed in a shipment of candy and nuts, the General Directorate of ... Saudi Arabia -
Saudi authorities seize 130,000 Captagon pills hidden in cheese boxes
Saudi Arabia has thwarted an attempt to smuggle 130,635 captagon pills into the Kingdom through the Al Haditha land border crossing, according to a ... Saudi Arabia -
Saudi authorities thwart attempt to smuggle over 170,000 Captagon pills in Jeddah
Saudi authorities on Friday thwarted an attempt to smuggle 178,274 captagon pills into the Kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.For ... Saudi Arabia -
Lebanon security forces seize 450,000 Captagon pills headed to Gulf
Lebanese police carried out a raid earlier this month and seized an estimated 450,000 pills of Captagon headed for the Gulf, the Internal Security ... Middle East -
Oman, aided by Saudi Arabia, seizes 6 mln captagon pills, arrests smuggling network
Oman announced Thursday the seizure of more than six million captagon pills during a bust aided by Saudi Arabia that resulted in the arrest of a ... Gulf -
Saudi Arabia thwarts two attempts to smuggle over 450,000 captagon pills
Saudi Arabia has thwarted two attempts to smuggle captagon pills into the Kingdom through the Al Haditha land border crossing, according to a ... Saudi Arabia -
Biden administration uses Caesar Act for second time to sanction Assad cronies
“Bashar al-Assad’s regime continues to rely on witting partners and deception to violate US, UK, and EU sanctions, while ignoring the needs of the Syrian people,” a senior Treasury Department official said. Middle East -
Saudi authorities foil attempt to smuggle 460,000 captagon pills
Saudi authorities have thwarted an attempt to smuggle 460,000 captagon pills into the Kingdom through Duba port, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) ... Saudi Arabia -
How much did you pay to stop the smuggling of Captagon?
Stories of Syria using Captagon as a bargaining chip to secure funds for reconstruction and regain its seat in the Arab League have been making the ... Opinion -
Hezbollah denies links to drug kingpin killed in Syria
“We don’t smuggle drugs, we smuggle weapons,” Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech. Middle East -
Jordanian air strike in Syria kills drugs smuggler, family: War monitor
An air strike killed a major drug smuggler and his family in southern Syria Monday, a war monitor said, attributing the strike to Jordan though Amman ... Middle East -
Saudi Arabia foils attempt to smuggle Captagon pills through land port
Saudi authorities have thwarted an attempt to smuggle more than 4 million Captagon pills into the Kingdom through al-Batha border crossing, the ... Saudi Arabia -
Damascus slams EU sanctions as ‘threat’ to quake-hit Syrians
Following Western allies the United States and Britain, the bloc sanctioned Samer Kamal al-Assad and Wassem Badi al-Assad, the president’s cousins, over alleged involvement in the trafficking of stimulant drug captagon, a key source of income for Damascus. Middle East -
EU sanctions Assad cousins over Captagon drug trade
An AFP investigation in November found that Syria has become a narco state with the $10 billion industry in captagon dwarfing all other exports and funding both Assad and many of his enemies. Middle East -
US, UK sanction notorious Lebanese, Syrian drug dealers over Captagon trade
Nouh Zeaiter, Hassan Muhammad Daqqou and two of Bashar al-Assad’s cousins were among those designated. Middle East -
Iraq seizes three million Captagon pills on Syria border
Iraqi authorities on Saturday said they seized three million pills of Captagon, an amphetamine-type stimulant that has been sweeping the Middle East ... Middle East -
Saudi authorities foil attempt to smuggle over 2 mln captagon pills
Authorities in Saudi Arabia foiled an attempt to smuggle over 2,015,116 captagon pills hidden in containers shaped as tomatoes and pomegranates, the ... Saudi Arabia -
Abu Dhabi Police seize 4.5 mln Captagon tablets hidden in food cans
Abu Dhabi police have arrested a man who allegedly tried to smuggle 4.5 million Captagon tablets in cans of food.General Tahir al-Dhaheri, director of ... Gulf -
Six killed in Lebanon army raid on drug smugglers
Three Lebanese soldiers and three suspects wanted for drug trafficking were killed Thursday in a gun battle during a raid in the eastern Bekaa region ... Middle East -
Dubai drug bust: 28 suspects, 3 drug trafficking rings with products worth $8.7 mln
Dubai Police rounded up a combined 28 suspects who were running drug rings with products worth $8.7 million (AED 32 million).In a report published by ... Gulf -
Saudi Arabia foils captagon smuggling attempts, seizes over 2.9 mln pills
Saudi security forces thwarted two separate attempts to smuggle over 2.9 captagon tablets into the Kingdom through al-Haditha and Rub’ al-Khali border ... Saudi Arabia -
Saudi Arabia foils captagon smuggling attempts, seizes over 750,000 pills
Saudi security forces thwarted four separate attempts to smuggle 756,212 captagon tablets into the Kingdom through al-Haditha border crossing and King ... Gulf -
Saudi authorities seize over 700,000 pills hidden inside watermelons
Saudi Arabia security forces seized over 700,000 amphetamine tablets in the capital Riyadh, the General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) ... Gulf -
Traffic accident in Syria reveals huge shipment of illicit drugs
A fatal traffic accident near the Syria-Lebanon border revealed a huge shipment of illicit drugs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) ... Middle East