Yemen drug control counts 613.7 kg of hashish seized in the first half of 2026
Yemen's General Department for Combating Drugs reported 734 suspects detained in 484 drug cases in the first half of 2026, including 613.7 kg of hashish and one case of cultivating drug plants. The figures cover only governorates under the internationally recognised government, and most of the seized weight was methamphetamine and other drugs.
Yemen’s General Department for Combating Drugs and its provincial branches
reported detaining 734 suspects in 484 drug cases in the first half of 2026, in
operations against smuggling and trafficking networks.[1]All 734 were Yemeni
nationals, 731 men and three women.[1]The cases included 245 for use of drugs
and 190 for trafficking, and a single case of cultivating drug plants.[2]The
department counted suspects by case type, including 385 in use cases and 286 in
trafficking cases.[1]
The department said officers seized613.7 kg of hashish, alongside 617.6 kg of
shabu (methamphetamine), 100 kg of heroin, 4 kg of opium, 1,000,182 Captagon
pills and 41,768 other drug pills.[1]The department said all the seized
material was held as evidence and that the legal procedures were completed
against the suspects, whose cases were sent to the competent authorities.[2]
The statement was published on 11 July 2026; an independent Yemeni tally that
month put the government areas’ total seizure at about 1.29 tonnes of drugs for
the first half of the year.[3]
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أخبار اليومmail.akhbaralyom.netARضبط 734 متهماً في 484 قضية مخدرات خلال 6 أشهر.. وأجهزة المكافحة تحبط كميات كبيرة من المواد المحظورة
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The report aggregates many operations across all governorates under the internationally recognised government; no individual raid, site or arrest date is published.
The cannabis content is part of mixed drug totals and the figures are the department's own; they were not independently verified.
The article reports a single cultivation case but gives no number of plants, area of fields or cultivation site, so no plant, hectare or setting figure is recorded.
The suspects are counted when detained on the cases; the report gives no charges filed, convictions or sentence outcomes.
The page image repeats the headline and is not established to show the seizures, so no cover is used.
The figures exclude Houthi-controlled territory, as an independent Yemeni tally of the same statement also notes.
Anti-narcotics police in Aden detained two people in Khormaksar district and seized nine bags of hashish weighing 10.5 kg, saying the bags were packed for distribution. The department's director said the file would go to prosecutors and then to a criminal court, where he said the pair face 25 years in prison.
The interior ministry's drug-control administration reported about 1.3 tonnes of drugs seized in government-controlled areas in the first half of 2026: 613.7 kg of hashish, 617.6 kg of methamphetamine, 100 kg of heroin, 4 kg of opium, more than a million Captagon pills and 41,768 other pills.
The drug control administration of the interior ministry of Yemen's internationally recognised government reported 2,986 kg of hashish seized in 2025 in the governorates it controls, beside 1,530 kg of crystal methamphetamine, 169 kg of heroin and 482,596 Captagon pills. It counted 704 drug cases, 488 of them for use, and 1,260 suspects, of whom 827 were users.
Security forces in Marib stopped a truck carrying 190 kg of hashish at a checkpoint and said it was being smuggled into Houthi-controlled territory. The head of Marib's drug-control department, Abdul Razzaq al-Ruwaifi, said the shipment and the accused were handed to the prosecution. The seizure was announced by the official Saba news agency and reported by Yemen Monitor.
