..Border Traffic: How Syria Uses Captagon to Gain Leverage Over Saudi Arabia..

..Border Traffic: How Syria Uses Captagon to Gain Leverage Over Saudi Arabia..

Bashar al-Assad’s regime has used the drug partly as a means of ensuring that Syria is reintegrated into the Arab world, allowing its leadership to reinforce its position after years of isolation and conflict.

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/07/border-traffic-how-syria-uses-captagon-to-gain-leverage-over-saudi-arabia?lang=en&center=middle-east