Syria's Narco State, Jihadi Supersoldiers and...

How Cuba is Slipping into Drug Chaos Since the beginning of the year, the US has placed Cuba under an oil embargo, crippling its public services and throwing a society that was already on its knees into chaos. Blackouts roll for days, trash piles high and locals are getting sick ...  Afficher plus

Sean got beaten up in Cuba! To celebrate this, we’ve thrown together a biopoly of crime in the tropics, beginning with the story of how American organized crime flocked to Havana in the 1920s as a Prohibition rum-runner’s paradise. After World War II, mobsters then executed a tak ...  Afficher plus

Was al-Assad's Syria a narco-state? Captagon—a deadly, addictive amphetamine—has turned Syria into the heart of a $2 billion drug empire few know about, with the Assad regime at the center of it all. From secret labs to smuggling routes, we uncover how this shadowy network operat ...  Afficher plus

Captagon, a highly addictive amphetamine-like drug, is causing huge problems around the Middle East, as millions of pills are smuggled out of Syria. BBC News Arabic collaborated with the investigative journalism network OCCRP to find out who's behind the trade. Emir Nader tells u ...  Afficher plus

De la plaine de la Bekaa au Liban, à l’État profond en Turquie, la drogue ne cesse d’être présente au Moyen-Orient. Mais après le haschisch et l’héroïne, place aux amphétamines de synthèse dont un pays, la Syrie, s’est fait une spécialité. Le Captagon a envahi la région, où les p ...  Afficher plus

New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose explains how captagon, a drug you may have never heard of, is propping up genocidal regimes in the Middle East.