Captagon

Italian Police seizes 37 million units of painkillers made by Indian company bound for Islamic State terrorists

Tramadol is a synthetic opioid-like drug used as a painkiller.

May 11, 2017, 10:32 AM IST

Bangladesh officials seek more samples from cafe attackers' bodies

Bangladeshi investigators have sought more samples from the bodies of the slain attackers to check whether the ISIS' 'super soldiers' carried out the country's worst terror attack at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone early this month, killing 22 people.

Jul 20, 2016, 19:27 PM IST

Turkey seizes 11 million pills of 'Syria war drug': Reports

The Turkish authorities have seized close to the Syrian border a record haul of almost 11 million pills of the synthetic stimulant drug captagon which is believed to play a crucial part in Syria's civil war, reports said today.

Nov 20, 2015, 18:20 PM IST