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Inside the drug factories that bankrolled Assad's narco state
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December 17, 2024
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3:03Now PlayingFollowing the fall of Bashar al Assad, Sky News has been able to film inside the drug factories that funded the Syrian dictator's regime.
The drug captagon, an amphetamine, was trafficked out of Syria and flooded across the Middle East.
The narcotics industry, according to the World Bank, was the most valuable sector of Syria's war-shattered economy.
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