Politics
From Lebanon to Syria... Drug-smuggling attempt ends in armed confrontation and smugglers’ escape
WHAT TO KNOWFrom Al Anbaa
The Media and Communications Department at the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that units of the Syrian Arab Army’s Border Guard thwarted an attempt to smuggle large quantities of narcotics from Lebanese territory into Syria, in the Sargaya area of the Damascus countryside. It explained that the attempt was thwarted following an armed confrontation with…
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