Syria announces Raqqa drug campaign with arrests in three neighbourhoods
Syria's Interior Ministry said a security campaign against drug dealers and users in three Raqqa neighbourhoods led to several arrests and the seizure of drug-use equipment. The campaign was announced inside the ministry's October 2026 tally, which reported 582 kg of hashish seized nationwide.
🇸🇾 Al-Badu, al-Mashlab and al-Ramila neighbourhoods, Raqqa, Syria
Syria’s Interior Ministry announced a security campaign against drug dealers and
users in the al-Badu, al-Mashlab and al-Ramila neighbourhoods of Raqqa
governorate.[1]The ministry said the campaign resulted in the arrest of
several people involved and the confiscation of equipment used to take drugs.[1]
The Raqqa campaign was announced as part of the ministry’s October 2026 results,
in which it said it dismantled 30 drug-trafficking networks.[1]In the same
monthly tally the ministry reported seizing 582 kilograms of hashish, the
cannabis resin tracked here.[1]The ministry said it also foiled attempts to
smuggle 400,000 captagon pills through border crossings, a non-cannabis seizure
recorded only to explain the mixed tally.[1]
The ministry published the Raqqa campaign among other October results, including
arrests of wanted people, weapons seizures and more than 1.77 million civil
transactions, without giving a date for the campaign.[1]
Syria's anti-narcotics directorate arrested three people in two operations in Rif Dimashq over smuggling drugs from Lebanon into Syria. Officers seized 61 kg of hashish and 2 kg of marijuana, alongside 200,000 narcotic pills, and referred the detainees for investigation.
Syria's anti-narcotics directorate arrested the man it calls the head of a Homs drug trafficking network, finding 9 kilograms of hashish and 120,000 Captagon pills on him. The agency said the arrest followed its May operation against the same network, in which two members were detained over 200,000 Captagon pills smuggled from Lebanon.
Syrian border guards stopped a drug shipment from Lebanon at Sarghaya in the Damascus countryside, and the smugglers opened fire before fleeing back across the border, Syria's Defence Ministry said. The force seized 280 kilograms of hashish and 28,000 Captagon pills, but reported no arrests.
Syrian customs officers seized 2,600 grams of hashish hidden inside a loudspeaker at the Qamar border crossing with Lebanon during routine luggage checks. The operation also netted 17 grams of heroin, and customs filed a violation report while pledging tighter border surveillance.
