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A man shows fake oranges filled with Captagon pills and dissimulated in boxes containing real fruit, after the shipment was intercepted by the customs and the anti-drug brigade at the Beirut port, on 29 December 2021. [Getty]

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Syria's Interior Ministry said counter-narcotics units seized 1 million Captagon pills during an operation at the Nasib border crossing with Jordan in southern Daraa province, Syria on September 22, 2025.

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Syria announces seizure of 12 million captagon pills

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Lebanon army seizes 64 million captagon pills in major drug bust

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Lebanon says busts int'l drug network, seizes hashish, Captagon

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Lebanon: Captagon factory destroyed after cooperation with Iraq

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Security forces in black uniforms dismantle metal frames used to conceal millions of captagon pills in Latakia, Syria

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Syria says seized 3 mn captagon pills near Lebanon border

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A member of the security forces of Syria's new authorities empties a sack of Captagon into a ditch to burn them in a field near the Fourth Division's Security Bureau on the outskirts of Damascus on January 19, 2025. (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP/Getty)

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Syria says it has seized all captagon factories

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Security forces in black uniforms dismantle metal frames used to conceal millions of captagon pills in Latakia, Syria, on April 12, 2025. (Photo by Sevket Akca/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Syria foils attempt to smuggle out 4 million captagon tablets

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Lebanese army raids Captagon factory along Syrian border

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Security forces in black uniforms dismantle metal frames used to conceal millions of captagon pills in Latakia, Syria, on April 12, 2025. The Syrian Interior Ministry announced that approximately 4 million captagon pills were seized during a raid on a smuggling depot near the coastal port.

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Syria seizes millions of captagon pills: ministry

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A member of the security forces of the new Syrian authorities shows Captagon pills found in a compound of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad's forces in Damascus on January 7, 2025. (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images)

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Iraq says seized one tonne of captagon from Syria via Turkey

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