Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Iraq seizes more than 6 million captagon pills in drug bust

Iraqi safety forces said Saturday they’d broken up a drug trafficking ring and seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon, making numerous arrests. Iraq’s northwestern neighbor Syria in the Middle East’s important captagon producer, and its southern neighbor Saudi Arabia is the primary customer. Iraqi forces seized “around 6.2 million pills” … Read more

Police foils smuggling of 1.7 mn captagon pills

captagon smuggling

Customs officials in Saudi Arabia have foiled an attempt to smuggle large quantities of captagon pills. According to the Arab News Agency, customs officials say they have stopped the smuggling of more than 1.7 million narcotic Captagon pills. Five people involved in the incident have also been arrested. The report of the news agency said, … Read more