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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Washington - Rana Abtar

US Congress Takes Action Against Syria’s Captagon

The House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a draft resolution that lays out a US strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked to the Assad regime in Syria.

The draft, submitted by bipartisan lawmakers, says the Captagon trade linked to the Assad regime is a “transnational security threat" and calls on the administration to develop and implement a strategy "to deny, degrade, and dismantle Assad-linked narcotics production and trafficking networks."

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