The new Syrian government is under direct assault from Hezbollah remnants determined to wreck the post-Assad transition. Since toppling Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Damascus has thwarted five major terrorist operations and dismantled ten Hezbollah-linked cells. These plots expose Hezbollah’s frantic bid to preserve Iran’s shattered regional dominance and punish Syria for breaking free.

Hezbollah inflicted lasting damage on Syria through its ironclad partnership with the previous regime. In tandem with the Fourth Armored Division, Hezbollah turned swaths of the country into a narco-state built on captagon production. Factories hugged the Lebanon border and sprawled across Damascus suburbs under regime protection.

Hezbollah supplied the logistics, armed security, and smuggling expertise that routed tons of pills through Jordan, Turkey, and Gulf ports. In 2021 alone, authorities seized exports worth $5.7 billion; the full annual market reached an estimated $57 billion — ten times Syria’s legitimate state budget. The flood created hundreds of thousands of addicts, laundered billions for weapons and militias, and bankrolled Iranian influence. Syria paid........

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