Syria’s new leadership under President Ahmed Al-Sharaa has launched an aggressive campaign to dismantle the vast captagon drug empire left behind by ousted dictator Bashar Al-Assad, whose regime transformed the country into one of the world’s largest narco-states. The drug trade, valued at over $5 billion annually, became a lifeline for Assad during the civil war, as sanctions and conflict crippled the economy.
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