Syria: Eleven million drug pills seized

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Published 2025-10-28 14.01

 

Seizure of the drug Captagon after the fall of the Assad regime. Picture taken at a former military headquarters on the outskirts of Damascus in January. Photo: Mosa'Ab Elshamy/AP/TT

Around eleven million pills of the drug Captagon have been seized in Syria, the country's interior ministry announced.

The tablets containing the drug Captagon were seized when they entered Syria from Lebanon, the ministry said.

It is one of the largest drug seizures in the country since the overthrow of former dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime in December.

The Captagon trade is believed to have been one of the Assad regime's main sources of income. The illegal turnover was estimated to be larger than Syria's entire official economy.

Assad's ally Hezbollah in Lebanon has also been accused of trafficking Captagon, a type of amphetamine. In September, the Lebanese military seized 64 million tablets of the drug in the eastern parts of the country.