Iraqi security forces said Saturday they had broken up a drug trafficking ring and seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon, making several arrests. Iraq’s northwestern neighbour Syria is the Middle East’s main captagon producer, and its southern neighbour Saudi Arabia the main consumer. Iraqi forces seized “around 6.2 million pills” from a warehouse in the southwest of the capital, the national security agency said in a statement, adding that the drugs were set for distribution “in areas of Baghdad and other provinces”. Three Iraqis and four suspects from …

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