{"id":103017,"date":"2023-08-20T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T08:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=103017"},"modified":"2023-08-20T08:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T08:09:37","slug":"jordan-thwarts-captagon-smuggling-attempt-from-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/103017\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan thwarts captagon smuggling attempt from Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>Jordanian border guards foiled on Saturday an attempt to smuggle narcotics from Syrian territories to Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jordan News Agency, Petra, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordantimes.com\/news\/local\/army-foils-infiltration-narcotics-smuggling-attempts-syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> citing a source within the Jordanian Army as saying that the border guards, in coordination with the Anti-Narcotics Department and other military apparatuses, thwarted an attempt by a group of smugglers who tried to cross the Syrian-Jordanian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military personnel engaged with the smugglers who sustained injuries and the others were forced to retreat back to Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They confiscated 63,000 captagon pills and 588 palm-sized sheets of hashish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 13, the Jordanian forces were successful in <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/99453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">downing a drone<\/a> carrying narcotics coming from Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past years, the Syrian-Jordanian border has witnessed continuous smuggling of narcotics into Jordanian territory, as the Jordanian army periodically announces the seizure of quantities of captagon pills and other drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several international reports, headed by the US Department of Treasury, accuse the Syrian government and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia of running large drug trafficking networks in this border area, as well as other Syrian regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By Stella Youssef <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Jordanian border guards foiled on Saturday an attempt to smuggle narcotics from Syrian territories to Jordan. 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