Two suspects were arrested in Salah al-Din governorate on 11 November 2026 with one kilogram of hashish in their possession, the governorate’s Drug Affairs Directorate said.[1] The directorate said its units arrested them on confirmed intelligence information, which led to the target being identified and the operation being carried out successfully.[1] Baghdad Today and Observer Iraq, both reporting the directorate’s statement, said intelligence work and field surveillance led officers to the two men.[2]

The statement gave no names for the two men and no figure beyond the one kilogram of hashish.[1]

Baghdad Today and Observer Iraq said the directorate described the operation as part of its strategy of tightening the pressure on drug dealers and traffickers and drying up the sources of illegal drug trafficking.[3] NINA, Iraq’s national news agency, reported the same arrests on the same day.[4]