JAF foils drug smuggling attempt from Syria

AMMAN — Troops at the Eastern Military Zone on Wednesday thwarted an attempt to smuggle “large” quantities of narcotics coming from Syria, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

An official military source at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) said that Border Guard patrols, in coordination with security forces and the Anti-Narcotics Department (AND), identified a group of smugglers illegally crossing into Jordan from the Syrian borders. 

Quick response patrols rushed to the site and applied the rules of engagement, injuring a number of smugglers and forcing the others to retreat, the source said. 

Following an intensive search of the area, 1,392 palm-sized sheets of hashish were seized and handed over to the concerned authorities. 

The source stressed that the JAF will continue to “firmly” deal with any threat to Jordan’s borders, foiling any endeavour intended to undermine and destabilise the Kingdom’s security and terrorise its people.