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Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanese court sentences Dr Food to life with labour in absentia

The "Dr Food" case began in 2023, when 16 pieces of cannabis resin in the form of rectangular blocks, wrapped in nylon and inside 'Dr Food' chocolate boxes.

Rita El Jammal
22 July, 2026
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Syria
MENA
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Jordan strikes drug, weapons storage sites in Syria's Suweida

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 May, 2026
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Spain
World
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Spain busts gang that used helicopters to fly drugs from Morocco

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 December, 2025
Spanish Guardia Civil members patrol at the border fence between Spain and Morocco in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on May 19, 2021. (Photo by ANTONIO SEMPERE/AFP via Getty Images)
Spain-Morocco border
World
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Police ground drone drug flights from Morocco to Spain

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 November, 2025
Security forces in black uniforms dismantle metal frames used to conceal millions of captagon pills in Latakia, Syria, on April 12, 2025. The Syrian Interior Ministry announced that approximately 4 million captagon pills were seized during a raid on a smuggling depot near the coastal port.
Algeria
MENA
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Algeria seizes 1.65 million ecstasy pills in major drug bust

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 May, 2025
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Iraq
MENA
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Iraq's top Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani declares war on drugs

Dana Taib Menmy
13 August, 2024
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Iraqi Kurdistan
MENA
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Iraqi Kurdistan security foils 'drug-infused books' going to UK

Dana Taib Menmy
24 July, 2024
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Iraq
MENA
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UN warns Iraq becoming major regional drug conduit

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 July, 2024
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Iraq
MENA
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Arab Liaison Committee on Syria to meet in Baghdad this month

Dana Taib Menmy
01 July, 2024
Jordan
MENA
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Drug smuggling from Syria into Jordan surges

William Christou
16 December, 2023
Jordan
MENA
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Jordan downs two drones carrying drugs from Syria: army

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 September, 2023
Jordan
MENA
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Jordan army downs drone from Syria carrying drugs

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 July, 2023
Daraa
MENA
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Clashes erupt near Syria-Jordan border after three shot dead

The New Arab Staff
20 June, 2023
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Egypt
MENA
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Egypt gives Ukrainian life sentence for smuggling cocaine

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
08 January, 2023
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India
World
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India arrests six Pakistanis after seizing heroin cargo

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
08 October, 2022
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Captagon
MENA
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Saudi Arabia: 47 million smuggled amphetamine pills seized

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
31 August, 2022
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Jordan
MENA
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Jordan: Iran-linked groups in Syria wage drug war on borders

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 May, 2022
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Morocco
MENA
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Moroccan police seize record cannabis haul

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 April, 2022
Jordan
MENA
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Jordan army says killed 27 drug smugglers on Syria border

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
27 January, 2022
White Captagon pills on the floor
Saudi Arabia
MENA
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Saudi customs sieze 8.3 million Captagon pills

The New Arab Staff
16 January, 2022
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Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanon, Kuwait agree to cooperate after Captagon drug bust

The New Arab Staff
31 December, 2021