{"id":67894,"date":"2021-11-18T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=67894"},"modified":"2021-11-18T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:26:05","slug":"republican-representative-calls-on-biden-to-counter-drug-smuggling-from-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/67894\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Representative calls on Biden to counter drug smuggling from Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>On Thursday, the Republican Representative, French Hill asked the administration of President Joe Biden to seek \u201cto stop the systematic drug smuggling operations in Syria,\u201d describing Assad\u2019s rule as a \u201cdrug regime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Hill called on his colleagues to support the draft resolution that he put forward last month within the Ministry of Defense budget law for the year 2022, saying, it is \u201cthe first step to end this civil war that devastated Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The draft resolution was approved by 316 deputies out of 435, and is now before the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of last September, the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant Affairs, Joel Rayburn, said, \u201cAssad dumps produce, drugs, and cigarettes into Jordan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWon\u2019t it become easier for Maher Assad\u2019s Fourth Division to smuggle Captagon into (or via) Jordan? 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