Captagon

Drug kingpin Nouh Zaiter
Lebanon
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'Drug kingpin' Nouh Zaiter given minimal jail term in Lebanon

Lebanon's military court sentenced an alleged drugs kingpin to just four months in prison, despite decades of allegations involving serious offences.

The New Arab Staff
04 February, 2026
Syrian authorities seize 2.5 million Captagon pills at Syria-Iraq border
Syria
MENA
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Syria, Iraq seize 2.5 million captagon pills: interior ministry

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 January, 2026
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Lebanon
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Testing the waters: Is Saudi Arabia re-engaging with Lebanon?

Dario Sabaghi
27 November, 2025
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]
Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanese farmers hopeful as four-year Saudi export ban may end

Ali Awadah
19 November, 2025
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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MENA
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Syria announces seizure of 12 million captagon pills

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 October, 2025
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Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanon army seizes 64 million captagon pills in major drug bust

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 September, 2025
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Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanon says busts int'l drug network, seizes hashish, Captagon

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 September, 2025
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Sudan war
In-depth
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How Syria's Captagon empire is being reborn in Sudan's war

Elfadil Ibrahim
20 August, 2025
Captagon Lebanon [Getty]
Captagon
MENA
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Lebanon: Captagon factory destroyed after cooperation with Iraq

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 August, 2025
Security forces in black uniforms dismantle metal frames used to conceal millions of captagon pills in Latakia, Syria
Captagon
MENA
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Syria says seized 3 mn captagon pills near Lebanon border

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 June, 2025
Maher Assad
Post-Assad Syria
World
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Maher Assad 'spotted in Moscow' months after Syrian regime fall

The New Arab Staff
18 June, 2025
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Post-Assad Syria
Society
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Captagon survivors find recovery in Syria’s first rehab clinic

The New Arab Staff

Sami Zaïbi

05 June, 2025
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)
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Syria says it has seized all captagon factories

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
05 June, 2025
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)
Syria
MENA
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Syria foils attempt to smuggle out 4 million captagon tablets

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 May, 2025
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Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanese army raids Captagon factory along Syrian border

The New Arab Staff
05 May, 2025
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.
Captagon
MENA
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Syria seizes millions of captagon pills: ministry

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 April, 2025
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)
Iraq
MENA
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Iraq says seized one tonne of captagon from Syria via Turkey

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
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Syria
Society
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Post-Assad, can Syria’s health sector recover as sanctions ease?

The New Arab Staff

Jagoda Grondecka

26 February, 2025
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Iraq
MENA
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Iraq's drug epidemic spreads from schools to government offices

Dana Taib Menmy
19 February, 2025
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Captagon
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Toys stuffed with Captagon uncovered by Syrian security forces

21 January, 2025
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Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Syria security forces destroy millions of captagon pills

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 January, 2025