ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Syrian forces supported by the US-led coalition last week successfully destroyed a large cache of narcotics belonging to the Islamic State (IS), an official statement revealed on Monday.

The coalition’s partner force, Maghawir al-Thawra, seized a stockpile of drugs on May 31 during counter-IS operations within the 55km de-confliction zone near Syria’s al-Tanf.

The haul of narcotics is estimated to have a black market value of $1.4M, according to the coalition’s statement.

“Despite Da’esh’s façade of Islamic purity, its criminal terrorists are known drug users and traffickers. The cache included more than 300,000 pills of Captagon, an illegal drug frequently trafficked and used by Da’esh members,” the coalition’s statement read, using the Arabic acronym for the group.

Captagon is a highly-addictive amphetamine-based drug, banned in most countries. It is informally referred to as the « jihadists’ drug. »

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