It is now over ten months since the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh, have been barely surviving with dwindling reserves of food, medicine, gas, and electricity. The aftermath of resumed Armenian-Azerbaijani hostilities has forced the migration of 5 out of 6 inhabitants to the state of Armenia, with the remaining population being deprived of dignified living conditions. To understand this humanitarian crisis and why it is nigh constitutive of a genocide, this article will delve into a brief history of the region and the territorial dispute that has surrounded it for decades, understanding the motivations behind the actions of both countries and how they have evolved overtime.

This article tackles the involvement of the Syrian government in drug trafficking, to then delve into and evaluate the economic, diplomatic and military measures undertaken by Western governments and Arab states to curtail the smuggling of Captagon.