Syria reports 582 kg of hashish seized in October operations
Syria's Anti-Narcotics Department said 157 October operations dismantled 30 domestic trafficking networks and seized 582 kg of hashish. The monthly tally also listed Captagon, narcotic pills and crystal meth as separate non-cannabis seizures.
🇸🇾 Syria
- Cannabis
- 582 kg
Syria’s Anti-Narcotics Department said it carried out 157 security operations
across the country during October 2026.[1][2][3][4] The department said those
operations dismantled 30 domestic drug-trafficking networks.[1][2][3][4] The department
reported seizing 582 kilograms of hashish in those October operations.[5][2][3]
The same monthly tally separately listed about 4.3 million Captagon pills, more
than 28,000 narcotic pills and 7 kilograms of crystal meth, which are not
counted as cannabis here.[1] North Press reported the tally from the
department’s official statement, saying it conducted 157 security operations and
dismantled 30 domestic networks in the past month.[5]
The department gave no further details about the operation locations or the
people arrested in the October tally.[5]
Sources
- سورية تضبط نصف طن من الحشيش.. والأردن يحبط تهريب مليوني حبة مخدرة. العربي الجديد, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- ضبط 4.3 ملايين حبة كبتاجون وتفكيك 30 شبكة مخدرات في سوريا. عنب بلدي, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- ضبط 4.3 ملايين حبة كبتاجون وتفكيك 30 شبكة مخدرات في سوريا. عنب بلدي, 1 November 2026. In Arabic.
- تحول لافت في سوريا نحو تفكيك البنية التحتية لشبكات الكبتاغون. أخبار اليوم, 2 November 2026. In Arabic.
- Syria Seizes 4.3 million Captagon pills in October. North Press, 1 November 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- The tally covers the whole of October 2026 and was announced on 1 November 2026; 31 October is used as the incident date for the monthly period.
- No number of people arrested or detained was published for the October tally as a whole.
- The tally's non-cannabis amounts are excluded from cannabis figures and cannot be separated beyond the published list.
- The same article also describes separate Aleppo operations, a Jordan border seizure of two million pills, and September and August tallies, which are different events left out here.
- The only image on the submitted page shows the Jordan pills seizure, not the Syrian hashish tally, so no media entry is listed.
- سورية تضبط نصف طن من الحشيش.. والأردن يحبط تهريب مليوني حبة مخدرة (العربي الجديد) could not be opened again to check its quotations (The browser page answered HTTP 404.; archived fallback unavailable (Wayback availability answered HTTP 429). No AI research was started); what it says is as the AI read it.
- The article's cannabis detail is summary-level — hundreds of kilograms of hashish — and does not give the tally's 582 kg total, so the existing total is unchanged.
- The article mentions a 260 kg hashish seizure in an Aleppo smuggling cell and other pill seizures that may be components of the October tally but are not separately dated or detailed enough for a new report.
- The lead image on the page has only the generic caption 'image' with no credit or event description, so no media entry is listed.
