The owner of Indomie announced he would shut off operations permanently, then backed off, according to al-Modon.
Fares Shebahi said he could not understand why there was no official Syrian action in this regard, according to Asharq al-Awsat.
One Jordanian soldier sustained injuries during the operation, according to al-Araby al-Jadeed.
The Men of Dignity movement also said it seized a drug manufacturing facility in the house of a military intelligence officer.
Undisciplined forces in the Syrian regime’s army and security services are supporting drug traffickers, Jordan said, according to Syria TV.
Raghed Haroun, former medical director of Ibn Sina Mental Hospital, said that levels of depression have greatly increased, according to al-Hal Net.
Jordan said it thwarted the trafficking of large amounts of narcotics coming from Syria, according to North Press.
In a radio message to his troops, the king of Jordan praised their fight against drug smuggling from Syria, according to the Shaam News Agency.
Paul McLoughlin writes that unrest in Suweida reflects deep-seated problems in the Syrian province, in an analysis to al-Araby al-Jadeed.
The Jordanian army said Thursday it had killed 27 drug smugglers in a clash as they tried to enter the kingdom from Syria, after Amman announced its intention to confront smugglers, according to al-Araby al-Jadeed.
Authorities were able to foil the smuggling of around 800,000 captagon pills headed towards the Gulf from Syria through Jordan, according to Athr Press.
Jordanian authorities stopped a second attempt to smuggle narcotics from Syria less than a week after the first one, according to Sowt al-Asima.
Schools in the suburbs of Damascus are being plagued by drugs, with Hezbollah being suspected as the main supplier of the narcotics reports Zaman Al Wasl.
Major Hossam Azar from the anti-drug department, blamed the spread of drugs on terrorist groups, who use the profits to fund their activities writes Al-Watan.
Syria’s rebel-held southern areas are facing a thriving drugs trade targeting youths, Zaman al-Wasl writes
The Anti-Narcotics Department seized 5 kg of hashish and 24 Captagon pills that were hidden in the dealers’ car, the Interior Ministry announced Wednesday, according to SANA
Al-Souria investigates Hezbollah’s alleged drug trafficking ring in Damascus
