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Ahmed Ashour

Investigations

2025

1.Damascus Dossier: Syrian Telecoms Operator Helped Assad Regime Spy on Citizens , OCCRP, 2025

2. Captagon Drug Networks Adapt and Survive in Middle East After Assad’s Fall , OCCRP, 2025

3. Cellular Arms: How Syrian Telecom Companies Hand Over Customer Data to Assad’s Intelligence Services , ARIJ, 2025

4. Syria’s Captagon Empire: From factories in Europe and India to Syria’s Fourth Division's Laboratories , ARIJ, 2025



2024

1.Gaza’s Ancient Port of Blakhiyeh Crushed By Israeli Tanks , ARIJ, 2024

2. European Research Grants support the War on Gaza , ARIJ, 2024



2023

1. The Season of Migration into the Nets: The Route to Smuggling Rare Migrating Falcons from Libya to the Arabian Gulf, , ARIJ, 2023

2.The Cypriot Tent: Offshore company brings together Qaddafi and former Lebanese president , ARIJ, 2023



2021

1.Companies Funding the Syrian Regime Operate Freely in Britain through Lebanon , ARIJ, 2021

2.Yemen Parties to the Conflict Compete to Loot Taiz Antiquities , ARIJ, 2021

3.Greek Captagon Bust Leads to a Criminal Gang and the Port at the Heart of Syria’s Booming New Drug Trade , OCCRP, 2021

4. Al-Bashir’s Men in the Telecommunications Sector , ARIJ, 2021

5. An investigation reveals the smuggling of Yemeni antiquities and their sale at European auctions, and documents the smuggling journey , ARIJ, 2021



2020

1. Unmasked: Egypt’s Health Ministry Provides its Medical Staff with Fake N95 Masks , ARIJ, 2020

2. Egyptian Medical Staff Treating COVID-19 Patients Given Old, Fake Masks , OCCRP, 2020