Cocaine production, seizures, and use reached all-time highs in 2023, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in its latest world drug report published on Thursday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported Wednesday that it had discovered out-of-service Syrian tanks in the former demilitarized zone between the two countries — while Syrian rebels discovered the Assad regime’s captagon stockpile.
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was welcomed Thursday in the capital of Bahrain for an Arab League Council meeting focused on the war in Gaza.
Officials in Saudi Arabia this week seized approximately 47 million amphetamine pills found hidden inside flour bags.
Syrian rebels, backed by the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), at the end of last month captured a $1.4 million cache of narcotics owned by the terrorist group, including more than 300,000 highly-addictive amphetamine-based Captagon pills known as the “jihadists’ drug,” the alliance announced this week.
