The New Yorker12d
How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer
Bashar al-Assad has propped up his regime by exploiting the Middle East’s love of an amphetamine called captagon.
Sanctions crushed Syria’s elite. So they built a zombie economy fueled by drugs.
Yet Treasury Department documents have identified close relatives of Assad — including his brother Maher al-Assad, commander ...
BBC1y
Syria: New Captagon drug trade link to top officials found
Since 2018 it has been formally led by Maher al-Assad, the younger brother of President Assad. Maher al-Assad is subject to Western sanctions for carrying out brutal crackdowns on demonstrators ...
Khaleej Times1mon
Feared forces launch new assault on Syria capital
The Fourth Brigade headed by Maher Al Assad was leading the assault in the Damascus district of Barzeh, triggering a mass exodus of residents from the area, said the Syrian Observatory for Human ...