The operation highlights the continued challenges facing authorities even as they claim to have dismantled all known production facilities across the country. Enforcement efforts yield mixed resultsIn early June, Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab announced that all known Captagon production facilities had been dismantled. Later that month, security forces confiscated approximately 3 million pills and 50 kilograms of hashish following an armed confrontation with smugglers near the Lebanese border. Another 1.7 million pills were seized in eastern Daraa province, already packed for smuggling. In October, Syrian officials confiscated 11 million pills from a vehicle entering southern Homs from Lebanon.

Source: Libya Today December 21, 2025 01:27 UTC