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Germany’s Baerbock announces aid for Syria, calls for ‘smart’ sanctions
Germany’s foreign minister Analena Baerbock said on Sunday that sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in place but called for a “smart approach” to provide relief to the Syrian population after last month’s overthr…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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How the Assads used a civil war to turn Syria into a narco state
As Syria's economy collapsed during its civil war, the country became something of a narco state. The regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad earned billions by trafficking in the drug Captagon.NPR
Syrie : la chute de Bachar-al-Assad révèle l'ampleur du trafic de captagon • FRANCE 24 - EUROPE SAYS
Syrie : la chute de Bachar-al-Assad révèle l'ampleur du trafic de captagon • FRANCE 24 C'est le petitEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
Four days since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, opposition fighters who have taken control of Damascus have uncovered large stashes of Captagon, a narcotic substance that has long been mass-produced in the country.
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Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, says the Captagon trade was an essential and lucrative business for al-Assad’s government.
“#Syria was a failed state. The regime had become completely corrupt, and it didn’t have any money.”
“The whole country was running on fumes, with almost no electricity, and Captagon became an alternative for the al-Assad regime."