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Jordan's army says its troops killed at least 27 armed drug smugglers and wounded others as they crossed border from Syria with amphetamines in a snowstorm.

Jordanian troops killed 27 drug smugglers early Thursday as they tried to enter Jordan from neighboring Syria, Jordan’s military said. The killings occurred when a group of alleged smugglers, supported by an armed group, clashed with Jordanian troops along the border, according to Jordan’s military. Others carrying drugs fled back into Syria during the fighting,…

Jordan’s military says the killings occurred during a clash along the border it shares with Syria

Jordanian troops killed 27 drug smugglers early Thursday as they tried to enter Jordan from neighboring Syria, Jordan’s military said. The killings o

AMMAN: The Jordanian army said its troops on the northeastern border with Syria killed 27 drug smugglers after they tried to illegally enter the country at dawn on Thursday. The clash with smugglers, the deadliest ever, came after the Jordanian Armed Forces announced a change in the rules of engagement in a bid to curb increasing illicit drug smuggling from Syria. A security

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UK's Channel 4 broadcasts report of the Assad regime and Syria's trade in illegal drugs, with footage of a Captagon factory on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

LONDON: The large-scale export of Captagon from Syria and Lebanon is the legacy of a decade of conflict combined with widespread corruption, and reliance on the drug revenues is turning both countries into narco-states, according to a new report by Britain’s Channel 4 News. In Lebanon, militias and gangs operating in Hezbollah-controlled areas such as the Bekaa Valley are

Authorities find 9 million amphetamine-type Captagon pills in Beirut, the latest incident in a series of fake fruit drug busts

Lebanese authorities have intercepted millions of pills of the recreational drug captagon hidden inside fake oranges in a real fruit shipment.