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Iraq’s Interior Ministry said it broke up an international
\ndrug-trafficking network and seized five kilograms of crystal methamphetamine
\nin Babil province, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the ministry’s General Directorate for Narcotics and
\nPsychotropic Substances Affairs said the network comprised three foreign
\nnationals, including a woman, and that some of the seized crystal
\nmethamphetamine had been concealed inside the body of one of the suspects.<\/p>\n
In July, Iraq\u2019s Interior Ministry said authorities had seized 16.8 tons of\u00a0narcotics<\/a>\u00a0since 2023, while courts issued 380 death sentences, 150 life sentences and 190 international arrest warrants in drug trafficking cases.<\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/a>The Smuggler’s Almanac: Iraq’s war against narco-innovation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-19T11:26:18+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Babil Iraq’s Interior Ministry said it broke up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[4563,152,18408,94,70636],"class_list":["post-256036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-babil","tag-breaking","tag-drugs","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-breaks-up-drug-trafficking-network-in-babil"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117121996878218213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256036","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=256036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}