US, UK, and EU sanction Assad regime figures over their involvement in Syria’s illegal drug trade, including $57 billion "financial lifeline" of Captagon.
Marei Al-Ramthan, who was killed in an air raid on Monday with his wife and children, was accused of being behind the Captagon trade from Syria to Jordan.
Jordan carried out rare airstrikes on southern Syria on Monday, hitting an Iran-linked drugs factory and killing a smuggler allegedly behind big hauls across the two countries' border, local and intelligence sources said. The sources said one strike hit an abandoned drug facility in Syria's southern Daraa province linked to the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah,…