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Washington - Rana Abtar

New US Strategy to Limit Captagon Production in Syria

Syrian-Jordanian border that saw several Captagon smuggling attempts (AFP)

The US House of Representatives passed Tuesday a bill to counter drug production and trafficking and dismantle networks linked to the Assad regime in Syria.

The bipartisan bill said that the Captagon trade linked to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria is a transnational security threat, noting that the United States should develop and implement an interagency strategy to deny, degrade, and dismantle Assad-linked narcotics production and trafficking networks.

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