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A little white pill gives Syria leverage with Arab states

The Los Angeles Times 10 Jun 2023
Syria’s neighbors have been the biggest and most lucrative market for the drug. As the industry flourished, experts say, Damascus in recent years saw Captagon as more than just a cash cow ... A Saudi official denied reports that Riyadh had offered billions of dollars to Damascus in exchange for a crackdown ... The U.S ... resolution shelved ... .
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A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria's Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states

McDowell News 09 Jun 2023
Police searching for bodies at former Winston-Salem horse farm Marion Tailgate Market adds new food truck Fla ... Syria’s neighbors have been the biggest and most lucrative market for the drug. As the industry flourished, experts say Damascus in recent years saw Captagon as more than just a cash cow.
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A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria’s Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states

Federal News Radio 09 Jun 2023
READ MORE ... Insight by ExtraHop ... Syria’s neighbors have been the biggest and most lucrative market for the drug. As the industry flourished, experts say Damascus in recent years saw Captagon as more than just a cash cow ... Read more ... A Saudi official denied reports that Riyadh had offered billions of dollars to Damascus in exchange for a crackdown ... The U.S.
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For Syrians in survival mode, there’s always the sun

The Irish Times 21 May 2023
People buy nuts and kernels at the Midan market in Damascus. Photograph ... Michael Jansen ... Photovoltaic panels turn their faces to the sun on rooftops of elegant 200-year-old Ottoman mansions in Damascus, in handsome 20th-century apartment blocks in Aleppo’s suburbs, and modest homes in both cities ... .
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Far-right Israelis shut down Jerusalem’s Old City with flag march

Al Jazeera 18 May 2023
Before the procession gathered at the Damascus ... Across the street from the Damascus Gate, where thousands of Jewish Israelis sang euphorically, dozens of Palestinian shops, markets and restaurants were closed off to public access, resembling the situation in the Old City itself.
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Saudi Arabia denies offering to compensate Syria in return for curbing drug trade

Middle East Monitor 12 May 2023
Earlier on Wednesday, Reuters quoted a regional source close to Damascus and a Syrian source close to the Gulf with knowledge of contacts said ...
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Arabs bring Syria's Assad back into fold but want action on drugs trade

Reuters 10 May 2023
But as Damascus makes its own demands, the way ahead appears far from simple ... A regional source close to Damascus and a Syrian source close to the Gulf with knowledge of contacts said Saudi Arabia, a big market for captagon, had proposed compensation that would come as aid for the loss of the trade in the event it stops.
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Sweet victory: How chocolate-makers overcame the Syrian war

The Irish Times 09 May 2023
Their factory was destroyed in fighting, but a Damascus couple’s perseverance has paid off. Michael Jansen Syria chocolates Michael Jansen in Damascus ... In defiance of war and sanctions, Wouters Chocolate Boutique opened in January in the Abu Roumaneh diplomatic quarter of Damascus.
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What is Captagon, the addictive drug mass-produced in Syria?

Al Jazeera 09 May 2023
Arab League members’ desire to stop Captagon production and trade out of Syria appears to have been a crucial bargaining chip for Damascus ... Saudi Arabia, which remains the biggest market for the drug, also sought assurances as it discussed the normalisation of ties with Damascus.
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What Raisi's Damascus visit means for Iran-Syria ties

The New Arab 08 May 2023
But why did Iran choose the present moment to send Raisi to Damascus, and what was the main aim and message of his visit? ... Furthermore, these states are "well placed" to buy influence and assets at the "fire-sale market that is Syria's economy" if they can circumvent US sanctions on Damascus.
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Qatar Stock Exchange leads the Arab stock exchanges in trading and rises

Blitz 28 Apr 2023
The performance indicators of the stock exchanges of Dubai, Amman and Damascus increased by 1.90, 3.86 and 9.81 percent, respectively ... performance of global financial markets ... The market capitalization also recorded an increase in the stock exchanges of Muscat, Damascus, Bahrain, Palestine and Algeria, ranging between $84.67 and $913.65 million.
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Millions of Muslims around the world celebrate Eid with feasts and family visits as fasting ...

The Daily Mail 22 Apr 2023
The Arab capitals of Damascus, Baghdad and Beirut were crowded with worshippers heading to mosques and cemeteries ... PAKISTAN. Children play with toy guns during Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday. THAILAND ... People buy sweets and take a selfie at the Midan market in Damascus, Syria, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday on Thursday ... .
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Waning-hour weirdness

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 09 Apr 2023
It was to move Damascus ... All in the world that the little bill proposed to do was move a piece of the Van Buren-Faulkner county line, which tiny Damascus straddles, to make Damascus entirely part of Van Buren County, which, as it happens, has been wet for liquor sales since a vote in 2020.
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Palestinians brought explosives to al-Aqsa in last week's riots - police chief

The Jerusalem Post 09 Apr 2023
Police then entered al-Aqsa, firing stun grenades and working to remove the people barricaded inside ... Israel Police) ... Shabtai claimed that many of the senior officials in the police "do not remember such a quiet Ramadan in its first two weeks [as this one]," citing undisturbed commerce at a market at the Damascus Gate ... .
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Syrians face 'toughest Ramadan yet' amid economic chaos

The New Arab 23 Mar 2023
Syrian economist Abdulnaser Aljasem said that Ramadan this year is the toughest yet for Syrians, with the markets "bucking all the usual economic equations" ... "High prices, an absence of monitoring, and market stagnation are the three factors governing Syrian markets," he added ... Luay Shubat, a retiree from the Dummar neighbourhood in Damascus, said.

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