The Jordanian army announced that it had “neutralized” a number of traffickers who organize arms and drug smuggling operations along Jordan’s northern border.
In a statement published on its official website on Wednesday, 24 December, the Jordanian army said it targeted several factories and workshops that these groups use as launching points for operations toward Jordanian territory.
It added that it destroyed the identified sites based on “precise intelligence,” in coordination with unnamed regional partners.
Syrian state media outlet al-Ikhbariya reported that the Jordanian army fired flares along Jordan’s border with Syria border from the direction of Suwayda province (southern Syria), after carrying out several airstrikes targeting drug smuggling networks and farms used to store drugs in the southern and eastern countryside of Suwayda.
The Suwayda 24 network said airstrikes, believed to be Jordanian, hit sites linked to drug smuggling in Suwayda’s eastern and southern countryside.
According to Suwayda 24, there were seven airstrikes. Two of them targeted drug storage warehouses in the villages of al-Shaab and Umm Shama (east of Suwayda city), while other strikes hit farms and warehouses in the villages of Dhibin, Umm al-Rumman, al-Ghariyah, and Khirbet Awwad (in Suwayda’s southern countryside). The strikes also targeted a farm belonging to Imad Oloum, located on the road between the villages of Khazmah and Malh, noting that Oloum is considered one of the well known drug traffickers in the area.
The local Suwayda Press page also said the Jordanian airstrikes hit the village of al-Shaab in the Syrian desert, and struck several homes belonging to members of the al-Ramthan clan, who are accused of trading and smuggling drugs between Syria and Jordan.
Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV had reported early Wednesday that the Jordanian army has been dealing, since Tuesday evening, with several groups involved in smuggling arms and narcotics along Jordan’s northern border.
It added that the Jordanian Armed Forces were assessing the situation to neutralize the groups, prevent infiltration attempts, and stop various forms of arms and drug smuggling.
The channel quoted a military source as saying clashes with the groups involved in smuggling were still ongoing.
The source said there were no injuries among Jordanian Armed Forces personnel, adding that full details would be announced once the operation ends.
On 13 December, the Jordanian army announced it had foiled an attempt to smuggle a quantity of drugs from Suwayda’s southern countryside into Jordan, after an armed clash with a group of smugglers. The army said one member of the group was arrested, while the others fled back into Syria.
Ongoing operations
The Jordanian army also announced it had thwarted an attempt to smuggle drugs launched inside a plastic shell across the border with Syria.
In a statement dated 16 October, the Jordanian army said the Northern Military Zone foiled, within its area of responsibility, an attempt to smuggle drugs coming from Syrian territory.
A military source said border guard forces, after receiving intelligence about a smuggling operation, sealed off the targeted area. After searching and surveying the area, forces found a quantity of drugs stored inside a plastic shell.
A week before that operation, the Jordanian Armed Forces said they also stopped a drug smuggling attempt into Jordan from Syria.
In another statement, the Armed Forces said the Eastern Military Zone succeeded in foiling an attempt to smuggle large quantities of drugs along one of its border fronts within its area of responsibility.
The military source at the Jordanian Armed Forces General Command said a group of smugglers attempted to cross the border illegally from Syria into Jordan.
Syrian Jordanian cooperation
Syria’s and Jordan’s anti narcotics departments announced they had foiled seven drug smuggling attempts across the shared border, as part of ongoing security cooperation to confront smuggling networks.
In a joint statement published on 5 October on Facebook, Syria’s Interior Ministry said joint security operations by the two sides led to the seizure of around 1 million narcotic pills prepared for smuggling and distribution, as well as the arrest of several people involved in those cases.
The statement added that cooperation between the anti narcotics departments in Damascus and Amman included intelligence sharing and field coordination, which helped dismantle organized criminal networks involved in drug smuggling, posing a direct threat to the security of both countries and the region.
Both sides said these operations are a model for bilateral security cooperation in confronting drug smuggling, stressing that combating drugs is “not only a security task, but a humanitarian and moral responsibility that requires broad regional and international cooperation.”
They also emphasized that cooperation will continue to pursue smuggling networks and arrest those involved, “to protect societies and safeguard the future of generations from the dangers of drugs.”
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