Facing US pressure over terror financing and money laundering by Iran, the Central Bank of Iraq introduced regulations to restrict

With 2023 drawing to a close, our captagon seizure database at the New Lines Institute shows some incredibly interesting trends.

In August 2023 alone, ten death sentences in absentia have been issued for narcotics-related crimes in Syria. Here I show

This is the exact opposite of what sanctioning countries claim to do: target the Assad regime and spare innocent civilians.

While the Syrian regime’s pro-Palestine propaganda blares ever louder, guess where Bashar al-Assad’s elite Fourth Armed Division is? Not defending

Like it or not, Western policymakers and Syrian politicians can’t afford to ignore HTS for much longer. With the military

Studying local actors in the Syrian conflict can make your head spin: most allegiances are driven above all by outright

Another SDF charade! SDF launched a major crackdown on underwater pipelines smuggling oil from its areas into regime-held Syria along

If you think Assad is not cracking down on captagon, think again! Yesterday, the regime seized ONE PILL. One. One

Following Prighozin’s death, Wagner’s presence in Syria is virtually over, according to Anton Mardasov. Most of its fighters who stayed