Jordan shoots down a drug-carrying drone that crossed the border from Syria

June 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Jordanian Army has assured this Tuesday that it has shot down a drone that was carrying drugs and that had entered from Syrian territory, in the framework of complaints from Amman and other countries in the region about the rebound in the activities of drug trafficking networks. in Syria in the context of the conflict unleashed in 2011.

“The Border Guard forces, in coordination with the military services and the Anti-Narcotics Department, detected an attempt to illegally cross the border from Syrian territory,” military sources have indicated, adding that the drone has been shot down “in Syrian territory Jordanian”.

Thus, these sources have specified in statements to the Jordanian state news agency, Petra, that the device carried 500 grams of glass and have stressed that the Army will continue to work “with all its strength and firmness” in the face of “any threat on the border”. intended to “undermine or destabilize homeland security”.

On May 1, Amman hosted a meeting between several foreign ministers from Arab countries -including the Syrian, Faisal Mikdad-, in which Damascus pledged to “strengthen cooperation” to fight drug trafficking and smuggling, within the framework of the work for the reintegration of Syria after more than a decade of isolation.

In this sense, the Syrian authorities were willing to cooperate with Jordan and Iraq to identify the sources of production and distribution of narcotics across their borders, in the midst of the increase in the flow of captagon trafficking in the context of the war that broke out. in 2011 in the Arab country.