[Rudaw] The Jordanian army on Sunday said its border forces killed five narcos and injured four others as they were attempting to smuggle narcotics from Syria. Amman has strengthened its crackdown on drug trafficking from neighboring Syria which has turned into a regional narcotic hub following over a decade of civil war.
"The Eastern military district, in coordination with the military security services and the anti-narcotics administration, thwarted, at dawn on Sunday... an attempt to infiltrate and smuggle large quantities of narcotic substances coming from Syrian territory," a statement from the Jordanian Armed Forces read.
The statement added that five traffickers were killed, four others were maimed, while a "large quantity" of drugs were seized.
The operation comes a day after the interior ministers of Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...announced they would establish a "joint communications cell" aimed at combating drug trafficking in the region, particularly that of captagon, amphetamine-type stimulant.
Jordan has become a transit point for captagon being smuggled out of Syria, the main supplier, and Soddy Arabia
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the main consumer.
Numerous meetings have taken place between Jordanian and Syrian officials in an attempt to curb the illicit drug trade, but Amman remains dissatisfied with the outcome of these talks. The highest-level meeting took place in July between Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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Amman is also suspected to have launched several
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s targeting the residences of suspected drug pushers. Numerous drones carrying drugs from Syria into Jordanian territory has also being downed by Jordan’s armed forces.