{"id":708452,"date":"2026-06-17T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/708452\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:05:08","slug":"iraqi-authorities-dismantle-international-drug-trafficking-network-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/708452\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi authorities dismantle international drug trafficking network &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-16T22:51:11+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Maysan<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Iraq\u2019s Directorate of Narcotics Control in<br \/>\nMaysan province dismantled an international drug trafficking network operated<br \/>\nby two foreign nationals in southern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the directorate said the intelligence-led<br \/>\noperation resulted in the breakup of a criminal network specializing in the<br \/>\nsmuggling and transportation of crystal methamphetamine into Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects, both <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Security\/Iraq-cracks-international-crystal-drugs-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">foreign<\/a> nationals, were arrested in<br \/>\nthe act and found in possession of one kilogram of crystal meth. The<br \/>\ndirectorate did not disclose the nationalities of the suspects or provide<br \/>\nfurther details regarding the origin or intended destination of the seized<br \/>\ndrugs.<\/p>\n<p>Smugglers recently turned to airborne balloons to move drugs across Iraq\u2019s borders, particularly along Syrian and Jordanian routes, to evade direct contact with border patrols, Akram Al-Rashid, director of Al-Anbar\u2019s Anti-Narcotics Directorate, told Shafaq News in November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-16T22:51:11+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Maysan On Tuesday, Iraq\u2019s Directorate of Narcotics Control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,2605,451,14945,305781,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-708452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-drugs","tag-headlines","tag-iraq","tag-iraqi-authorities-dismantle-international-drug-trafficking-network","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}