Drug Trafficking

Syria Says Assad Cousin Involved in Drug Trade Arrested in Border Ambush

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Syria Drug Trafficking Wassim al-Assad Bashar al-Assad

Syrian authorities arrested Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, in one of the most high-profile arrests since the former president's ouster. Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia in December with only a handful of confidants, abandoning senior officials and security officers, some of whom ...

Saudi Arabia Executes 6 Iranians for Drug Trafficking

This is Beirut, 01/01 19:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Saudi Arabia Iran Drug trafficking

Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which it carried out a record number of executions, according to an AFP tally of official reports. The six were executed in Dammam, on the Gulf coast, for having "clandestinely introduced hashish" into the kingdom, the ministry ...

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