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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: Desperation leads to Gospel opportunity in Syria
Description: Syria (MNN) — A new report says militant groups linked to Bashar Al Assad’s regime increasingly use Europe as a drug trafficking route.
One analyst tells Euronews that Syria’s illicit Captagon dealings in the Arabian Peninsula are three times larger than the trade produced by Mexican cartels.
“The Syrian government, through Bashar Assad, is producing Captagon, ‘the poor man’s cocaine.’ It’s the drug of choice in the Middle East and North Africa,” Tom Doyle of Uncharted Ministries says.
“Right now, [Syria is] the leading producer of it, and that’s how the government is...