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'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry

Security forces of Syria's new authorities unload sacks of Captagon to a field to burn them near the Fourth Division's Security Bureau on the outskirts of Damascus on January 19, 2025. [AFP]

From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it bled dry.

Many of the bases of the elite Fourth Division formerly run by toppled president Bashar al-Assad's feared younger brother Maher now lie looted.

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