After more than a decade of appalling civil war, Syria has turned into a narco-state thanks to a drug called Captagon. The stimulant is now by far Syria’s biggest export, dwarfing all its legal exports put together. AFP interviewed smugglers, a fixer who puts together multi-million dollar deals, and 30 serving and former law enforcement officers from Syria and beyond, as well as diplomats and drug experts in a bid to grasp the scope of the phenomenon.

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