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The kidnappings follow a series of violent incidents in the area, including a bomb attack on March 20 that killed three soldiers and the bombing of a police station on January 27…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB231747
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Key to the new pattern is the increased association of state and state-linked actors with the trade in narcotics, primarily Captagon and hashish. The new environment creates risks…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262757
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Wide availability of cheap, pure cocaine internationally is driven by record levels of coca cultivation, stockpiles of cocaine that accumulated during COVID-19 lockdowns and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278302
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Still, the narcotics trade provides a lucrative alternative revenue stream for government-aligned actors in Syria. These external pressures are therefore instead likely to prompt…
The Taliban and the opium trade.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB227589
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Anti-drugs rhetoric from senior Taliban figures is intended to allay such concerns, but a sustainable anti-opium strategy would be difficult and destabilising for the Taliban to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB264651
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The expansion of Captagon.
Trade in pharmaceuticals and narcotics between China and the United States.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB247413
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The first such visit since 2011 comes days after a Syrian foreign ministerial trip to Saudi Arabia, amid a wider thawing of ties. Riyadh had formerly been the most powerful of the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278481
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Government authorities, including in the United States, are speeding up licensing for clinical trials of these controlled drugs. Substantial philanthropic funding supports…