{"id":95116,"date":"2026-05-03T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:03:08","slug":"jordan-strikes-drugs-weapons-smuggling-sites-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95116\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan strikes drugs, weapons smuggling sites in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/jordan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jordanian<\/a> Armed Forces struck several arms and drug trafficking sites located along the Jordan-Syria border early Sunday morning, the army confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Targeted sites included factories, workshops, and warehouses used by traffickers to store and organize smuggling attempts into Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The operation, carried out \u201cwith the highest degree of precision and intelligence,\u201d was completed in order to prevent trafficked drugs and weapons from reaching Jordan, according to the force.<\/p>\n<p>Smugglers have \u201c[adopted] new patterns of activity, taking advantage of the weather conditions and current regional circumstances to carry out their operations,\u201d \u00a0the armed forces explained, noting that there has been a significant rise in smuggling attempts across the Jordan-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-894836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Syria<\/a> border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThe Jordanian Armed Forces affirm that they will continue to deal proactively, decisively, and deterrently with any threat to the security and sovereignty of the Kingdom,\u201d the armed forces concluded, \u201cand will dedicate their capabilities and resources to confronting it with full force and determination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the indictments, the alleged smuggling operation ran from November 2025 through January 2026 near the Dead Sea Works area, close to the Israel-Jordan border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The prosecution says the defendants arrived at hilltops near the border carrying drones and packages of hashish weighing several kilograms each, flew the drones into Jordan, and later received them back loaded with pistols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In total, the prosecution alleges that the defendants exported about 120 kilograms of hashish to Jordan and imported about 44-48 Glock pistols into Israel, depending on how the final January shipment is counted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jordanian Armed Forces struck several arms and drug trafficking sites located along the Jordan-Syria border early Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[18408,33496,654,49,20943,95,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-95116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-drugs","9":"tag-illegal-weapons","10":"tag-jordan","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-smuggling","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116508898279153176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95116","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=95116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}