Syrian authorities seize large shipment of captagon and hashish
Captagon is an amphetamine that is widely used in Syria, including by armed groups.
Syrian authorities seized a large drug shipment en route to Jordan today.
The load consisted of hundreds of kilograms of hashish — a cannabis drug — and tens of thousands of captagon pills. The drugs were seized in the southern city of Daraa. Some smugglers were arrested while others fled, Syria’s official SANA news outlet reported.
