That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that— (1) the illicit production and trafficking of captagon is a rapidly growing problem in the Middle East, with direct involvement of the Assad regime, and Hezbollah; (2) the United States shall openly condemn the use of captagon to enhance militant capabilities in the slaughter 1,400 innocent men, women, children, and elderly in Israel on October 7th, 2023; (3) the United States should seek to improve assistance and training to detect, deter, and disrupt Hezbollah and Fourth Division-facilitated captagon smuggling operations, as well as broader counternarcotics efforts; (4) the United States should build on its report to Congress on a Written Strategy to Disrupt and Dismantle Narcotics Production and Trafficking and Affiliated Networks Linked to the Regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria Sec. 1238(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, P.L. 117–263 , and establish an interagency counter-captagon task force, encouraging regional partners to undertake cooperative law enforcement measures that enhance interdiction efforts against illicit captagon trafficking through informational exchange, forensic profiling, shared intelligence on captagon chemical laboratory analyses, port control unit capacity development, and monitoring precursor supply flows; (5) the United States should seek to establish an early warning system for seized captagon shared amongst key regional partners for improved identification and reporting; and (6) the United States should highlight the growing threat posed by the illicit captagon trade to include the direct involvement of the Assad regime and Iran-backed proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah, in international fora, and encourage broader international coordination, support for afflicted countries, and accountability for implicated actors.