{"id":130643,"date":"2026-05-25T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130643\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:28:12","slug":"joint-iraq-kurdistan-operation-seizes-11-5-kg-of-marijuana-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130643\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Iraq-Kurdistan operation seizes 11.5 kg of marijuana – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shafaq News- Baghdad\/ Erbil<\/p>\n

Iraqi authorities arrested a
\nsuspected drug trafficker and seized 11.5 kilograms of marijuana in his
\npossession during a joint operation involving Diyala province and
\nanti-narcotics units in Al-Sulaymaniyah and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan
\nRegion.<\/p>\n

According to the Interior Ministry, legal
\nmeasures had been taken against him under Iraqi law.<\/p>\n

Interior Ministry figures show<\/a>
\nanti-narcotics units seized more than 1.697 tons of drugs during the first five
\nmonths of 2026 and carried out 12 operations outside Iraq in coordination with
\nregional and international security agencies. During the same period, Iraqi
\ncourts issued 42 death sentences and 357 life imprisonment rulings against
\nconvicted drug traffickers.<\/p>\n

Read more: Iraq fights back against synthetic drug flood engulfing the Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-25T18:55:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad\/ Erbil Iraqi authorities arrested a suspected drug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[43814,94,43813,40717,3378],"class_list":["post-130643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-drug-trafficker","tag-iraq","tag-joint-iraq-kurdistan-operation-seizes-11-5-kg-of-marijuana","tag-joint-operation","tag-kurdistan-region"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116636870464956767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}