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Global cocaine market hits record high, says UN
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» VIENNA - Cocaine production, seizures and use all hit record highs in 2023, the United Nations (UN) drug agency said on Thursday, with the illicit drug's market the world's fastest-growing.
Syria hails US lifting of Assad-era sanctions
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities on Saturday announced an interior ministry restructuring that includes fighting cross-border drug and people smuggling as they seek to improve ties with Western nations that have lifted sanctions.
Frigates beat subs
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/01/2025
» Re: "Sub deal 'complete in six months'", (BP, Dec 31, 2024) and "China agrees to supply ship instead of sub to navy", (BP, March 28, 2024).
Syrians protest after video of attack on Alawite shrine
AFP, Published on 26/12/2024
» DAMASCUS - Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor and witnesses said, after a video circulated showing an attack on a shrine.
Huge illegal drug lab exposed in Syria
Published on 13/12/2024
» DOUMA - The industrial-scale drug lab sat just up a hill from a main road on the western edge of Damascus, the city that was the seat of power for the Assad family which long denied any links to the narcotics trade.
Saudis seek to bask in Zelensky's glow
AFP, Published on 20/05/2023
» JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: One man is revered in Western capitals for standing up to Russia's full-scale invasion of his country.
Zelensky in Saudi for Arab summit attended by Assad
AFP, Published on 19/05/2023
» JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed on Friday in Saudi Arabia, host of an Arab League summit attended by long isolated Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a close Russian ally.
Captagon connection: How Syria became a narco state
AFP, Published on 03/11/2022
» BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every front line: a drug called captagon.
Italy seizes IS-made drugs worth 1 billion euros
AFP, Published on 01/07/2020
» ROME: Italian police said Wednesday they had seized a 14-tonne haul of amphetamines made by the Islamic State group in Syria, calling it the biggest seizure of such drugs in the world.
France truck attack was planned for months, with accomplices
AFP, Published on 22/07/2016
» PARIS - France truck attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had long plotted the carnage that killed 84 people, prosecutor Francois Molins said, with the assistance of five suspects who have been formally charged.