Seizure10 February 2025verifiedCET-VZDYDA

Syria's new border force finds hashish factories on the Lebanese border

The commander of Syria's western border region said his forces had found numerous hashish farms, warehouses and processing and packing workshops during a sweep of villages along the Lebanese border. He said the area had been the economic artery of armed smuggling gangs and that the former regime had turned the border into a drug corridor.

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The commander of Syria’s western border region said his forces had found numerous hashish farms, warehouses and processing and packing workshops during a sweep of villages along the Lebanese border. He said the area had been the economic artery of armed smuggling gangs and that the former regime had turned the border into a drug corridor. The sweep also seized Captagon pills, weapons and presses for printing counterfeit currency.^[1]

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قائد المنطقة الغربية بإدارة أمن الحدود: ضبطنا عدداً كبيراً من معامل صناعة الحشيش وحبوب الكبتاغون (10 February 2025). SANA. commander's statements on the border sweep.

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