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ISF Foils Cocaine Smuggling Attempt from Nigeria

This is Beirut, 13/08 11:15 - Reading : less than a minute

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The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Wednesday the seizure of 156 cocaine-filled capsules weighing 3.4 kilograms, with an estimated street value exceeding $500,000 once mixed with other substances. According to an ISF statement, the Central Anti-Narcotics Office uncovered an international network planning to smuggle the drugs from Nigeria ...

Lebanese Army Dismantles One of Largest Captagon Factories in Baalbeck Area

This is Beirut, 14/07 15:30 - Reading : less than a minute

Captagon Army Raid Drugs Lebanon Baalbeck

The Lebanese Army dismantled a major Captagon factory in the town of Yammouneh, in the Baalbeck area, on Monday, in what authorities described as one of the largest drug facilities ever seized in the country. According to a statement from the Army Command, the raid was carried out by a unit from the Intelligence Directorate, supported by military ...

Lebanese Army Arrests Several Traffickers, Seizes Weapons and Drugs in Zebdine

This is Beirut, 30/06 10:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Lebanese Army Drugs Shatila Gang

The Lebanese Army carried out a series of raids on Sunday in Zebdine (Nabatiyeh district), following armed clashes that erupted on June 25 in the Sabra and Shatila camps between rival drug trafficking gangs. In a statement issued Monday, the army announced the arrest of four individuals: three Lebanese nationals (M.Ch., H.G., and A.K.) and one ...

Syrian Authorities Seize 3 Million Captagon Pills Near Lebanese Border

This is Beirut, 27/06 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Syria said Friday that authorities had seized some three million pills of the illicit stimulant captagon after clashes with a drug trafficking network near the Lebanese border. Authorities observed the network "coming from Lebanon into Syrian territory" via illegal border crossings in the Jarajir area in the northern Damascus countryside, said a ...

Trump Says Will Sign Order Aimed at Cutting US Drug Prices

This is Beirut, 12/05 05:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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President Donald Trump unveiled plans Sunday for a new policy on pharmaceuticals he claimed would reduce US prescription drug prices by between 30 and 80 percent. "They will rise throughout the World in order to equalize and, for the first time in many years, bring FAIRNESS TO AMERICA!" Trump wrote in a social media post, adding he ...

LAF Seizes Captagon Lab Near Syrian Border

This is Beirut, 05/05 10:10 - Reading : less than a minute

Lebanese Army Drugs Captagon Hermel

The Lebanese Army uncovered a drug-manufacturing laboratory near the Syrian border on Monday, seizing a large quantity of Captagon pills and raw materials used in their production during a raid in the Harf al-Sammaqa area of Hermel, a region known for cross-border smuggling. In a statement published on its official X account, the army said the ...

Six Kilograms of Drugs Seized at Beirut Airport

This is Beirut, 07/03 19:50 - Reading : less than a minute

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Six kilograms of Captagon were seized at Beirut airport, in the suitcases of two Syrians. In a statement issued on Friday, the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced that a unit of the airport control brigade “seized overnight around 6 kg of Captagon tablets, concealed in aluminum foil, as if they were chocolate ...

Salloum: The Fall of the Syrian Regime Will End Drug Smuggling

This is Beirut, 2024-12-16 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The President of the Pharmacists’ Syndicate, Joe Salloum, stated that the fall of the Syrian regime would put an end to the smuggling of medications, noting that subsidized medicines have been smuggled across border points. "With the regime's fall, the borders will be controlled, and the process of drug smuggling in both directions will come ...

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