Syria’s Suwayda: A new hub for the multibillion-dollar Captagon trade?

Fighting again erupts in Syria’s Suwayda

Clashes broke out May 4 in Syria’s southern as-Suwayda (Suweida) province between the central government’s Internal Security Forces and Druze armed groups affiliated with the region’s self-declared “National Guard.” Fighters from the Guard’s “501 Knights of Hamza” battalion attempted to advance toward government lines in the governorate’s western countryside under heavy cover fire, including from truck-mounted machine-guns and rocket-launchers. …

Syria’s Suwayda: A new hub for the multibillion-dollar Captagon trade?

Suwayda has emerged as a new Captagon hub in Syria, triggering Jordanian strikes and a regional security crisis.