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DUBAI, UAE –The Dubai Customs apprehended a traveler arriving from a European country who was trying to smuggle various small drugs that were cleverly concealed within his luggage.The items included 292 hallucinogenic pills, five hallucinogenic stamps, 13.84 grams of hallucinogenic powder, 7.38 grams of crack cocaine and 274.59 grams of...

War-scarred Iraq, originally mainly a drug transit country, has faced an explosion in narcotics use in recent years, mainly of captagon and crystal meth.

Dubai, UAE -- The General Department of Anti-Narcotics at Dubai Police apprehended 49.6 percent of the total number of suspects wanted for drug-related cases and promoting psychotropic substances across the UAE in the second quarter of 2023.During the same period, a total of 491 kg of drugs and 3,333,916 narcotic...

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) have arrested a citizen in Jeddah governorate for smuggling 209,000 pills of the narcotic methamphetamine. Legal action has been taken against him, and the case has been referred to the Public Prosecution, SPA reported.Security authorities have requested all...

The focus of the discussion between the two was war refugees and a crackdown on cross-border smuggling, according to Jordan's foreign ministry. The diplomat's visit comes amid an increasing regional engagement with the Assad regime, peaking with Syria's return to the Arab League after years of isolation since Syria's war...

DUBAI, UAE- Dubai Customs has assisted Japanese customs authorities in intercepting a significant quantity of illicit drugs. Up to 700 kilograms of "methamphetamine" powder, valued at approximately US$310 million, were concealed within a cargo ship originating from an Asian country and bound for Japan.The successful operation led to the apprehension...

Abu Dhabi, UAE--The International Security Alliance (ISA) has seized narcotics estimated to be worth US$750 million from a large transnational drug trafficking ring, and arrested 597 suspects, in a wide operation spread over many continents, dealing a big blow to organized criminal groups trafficking in drugs.The ISA, a working group...

Dubai, UAE-- Dubai Customs has scuttled nearly 2,600 attempts during the last three years to smuggle drugs, combating a concerted campaign to bring in drugs into the emirate as it commemorates the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26th each year.Between 2020 and 2022, Dubai Customs...

MUSCAT, OMAN - Oman announced the seizure of over six million captagon pills during a bust aided by Saudi Arabia that resulted in the arrest of a smuggling network."In cooperation with Saudi authorities", police in the sultanate tracked and ambushed an "international network that was smuggling large quantities of drugs and...

Saudi Arabia has seen an influx of the addictive amphetamine captagon flooding in from war-torn Syria and Lebanon. After becoming a major market, Saudi Arabia is hitting back, ending a moratorium on the death penalty for drug cases and launching a zealous crackdown.

Revenue dropped more than three percent to $8.74 billion.

Dupixent drug has been a huge success for the firm.

The area of land used for opium poppy cultivation expanded by a third to just over 40,000 hectares in 2021-22 -- the first full growing season since the coup -- according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report released Thursday.

The annual figure was released one day after an 11-year-old girl was shot dead in a gun attack on an Antwerp home that the city's mayor dubbed the latest outrage in an ongoing "drug war". Belgium's main container terminal is now considered the main gateway for illegal drugs into Europe,...

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates--The French navy seized nearly half a ton of heroin and 3.5 tons of cannabis resin when it intercepted an unflagged boat in the Arabian Sea, it said Monday.It seized the drugs with an estimated value of 50 million euros after its frigate Guepratte spotted the dhow...

The two will manufacture 'innovative' drugs in Abu Dhabi.

The Hague, Netherlands—Police have dismantled a huge drugs "super-cartel" that controlled a third of Europe's cocaine trade, arresting 49 people in various countries including six top suspects in Dubai, Europol said Monday. The huge international operation seized 30 tonnes of the drug and also involved arrests in France, Spain, Belgium and...

Amman, Jordan— Jordan has seized a big haul of drugs being smuggled into the kingdom from Syria in two different attempts. According to Jordan News Agency the country's security forces have foiled two attempts to smuggle large quantities of drugs from Syria in two days. Border guards at the Jaber...

Fastening weapons or drugs to livestock to cross borders is an age-old smuggling trick. Latin American cartels took this a step further by stitching bags of cocaine and heroin into dogs and other animals. In November 2021 Kuwaiti authorities found 17 kilos of captagon pills inside live imported sheep.

More than a year after it took power, Taliban has failed to curb opium poppy cultivation in the country as production and exports have boomed. According to the UN's drugs agency the poppy cultivation has gone up by a third despite the Taliban's ban in April on the cultivation.

The new measure allow Ukrainian citizens and people from Ukraine's separatist eastern regions that Russia recognizes as independent to work in Russia without a work permit and to live in the country "without a time limit".

Argentine authorities seized 1.6 tons of cocaine hidden in animal feed destined for Dubai and detained 12 people, police said on Friday.

A United Arab Emirates court has commuted the death sentence of an Israeli woman convicted of drug possession to life in prison. She was sentenced to death in April for possession of 50 grams of cocaine and half a kilogram of marijuana.

Jordan has foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs into the kingdom from its border with Syria, seizing 900,000 Captagon pills and hashish.

Saudi Arabia has seized a new consignment of banned drugs being brought into the kingdom at Al-Haditha port.

Saudi Arabian authorities said Wednesday that they thwarted an attempt to smuggle 403, 000 amphetamine tablets into the kingdom. An official statement said the "security follow-up of drug smuggling and promotion networks targeting the security of the kingdom and its youth resulted in thwarting of the smuggling attempt" The tablets...

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it would sell its patented drugs on a not-for-profit basis to the world's poorest countries, as part of a new initiative announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "The time is now to begin closing this gap" between people with access to...

The licensed plant will manufacture a variety of injectable human healthcare formulations such as vials, ampoules and prefilled syringes.

This action, among others, could be quite helpful in getting the UAE out of the so-called grey list of the FATF, where it was put earlier this month.

Judge Ahmed Faisal was headed home in his car in the city of Amara when unknown assailants blocked his route and opened fire.

Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Arab States, has affirmed that the security of the GCC states is indivisible, asserting that the "Arab Gulf Security 3" is a message of determination and peace. Arab Gulf Security 3 is a joint tactical exercise of...

Turkey has been rattled by a currency collapse that accelerated by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s last-month steps that defy conventional policies.

Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) biomedical institute and Scripps Research will collaborate under an agreement to accelerate biomarker and drug discovery for unmet medical needs. QBRI is a leading research institute under Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and Scripps Research is one of the most influential institutions in the world...

Saudi officials of the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) have seized more than 2.1 million Captagon pills at Haditha Border Entry Point in some seven attempts to smuggle contraband into the kingdom.

The customs authority has foiled more than 1,000 attempts to smuggle prohibited items into Saudi Arabia.

Alert officials of Saudi customs prevented an attempt to bring in contraband drugs into the kingdom at Jeddah Islamic Port, seizing 1.6 million Captagon pills.

A consignment of two million illegal pills was seized by the Saudi authorities along the kingdom’s border with Jordan. The drugs were hidden in tomato paste jars.

Sharjah Police’s Anti-Narcotics Department recently seized 215 kg drugs with a market value AED35 million ($9.53 million) The cops seized 209 kg of crystal meth and 6.7 kg of heroin and opium in 182 boxes from them Sharjah Police’s Anti-Narcotics Department recently seized 215 kg drugs with a market value...