Middle East, Jordan attacks drug traffickers on the border with Syria
Strike in Suwayda: Mar'I Al-Ramthan, one of the leaders of smuggling, linked to Hezbollah, killed. Objective: to stop transfers to the Arabian Peninsula.
Arabian Sea, the US Coast Guard seizes a maxi drugs shipment
The value is 20 million dollars in hashish and methamphetamines. The area and the Persian Gulf are the most used for the smuggling of drugs-weapons from Iran to the Houthis in Yemen.
Terrorism, Syria has become a large Captagon factory
Former ISIS militiamen produce the amphetamine, the "fighter's drug", and sell it abroad via Jordan. In 2022, more than 17 million pills were seized.