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A little-known drug brought billions to Syria’s coffers. Now it’s a bargaining chip

Caroline Rose

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Captagon has been touted as a ‘card’ in rapprochement talks between the Syrian regime and counterparts pursuing normalization…The regime has been leveraging its agency over the captagon trade, signaling to states considering normalization that they could reduce captagon trafficking as a goodwill gesture.

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