Hearing a lot about Syria's drug trafficking? Just before Assad's fall Caroline Rose from the New Lines Institute told me about how Assad propped up his regime by producing the amphetamine Captagon on an industrial scale. Here's 60 seconds of our interview from The Context on @BBCNews on 6 Dec 2024.

'Calling them a Mafia group would probably be too understated,' Nicholas Hopton former UK Ambassador to Iran, Yemen, Qatar and Libya is unflinching in his criticism of the Assad regime. #Assad #Syria