Syrian authorities have disrupted a major drug smuggling operation

Syrian authorities have disrupted a major drug smuggling operation

21 мая 2026 г.

Mikhail Zhurenkov

Syrian authorities have thwarted a massive drug smuggling operation, intercepting a shipment of nearly 25 million Captagon pills.

According to state-run Syria TV, the illicit drugs were discovered on Tuesday concealed inside a shipment of clay pots at an undisclosed Syrian port, bound for international export. Law enforcement successfully dismantled the trafficking cell, arresting the operation’s ringleader along with seven other suspects.

Following the bust, Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab praised the effort on X, calling it one of the "largest operations of its kind" and declaring that "Syria will neither be a transit route nor a safe haven for these poisons."