This is how Hezbollah turned Syria into a state of conflicts and drug production – Details

Since Lebanon’s Hezbollah entered the political equation, it has begun igniting clashes and conflicts inside the country, which has been torn by civil war for years.

Informed sources revealed the existence of bloody clashes between Hezbollah elements in the northern Aleppo countryside with elements belonging to Quds; causing deaths and injuries.

The sources clarified that the Lebanese Hezbollah militia recently started to try to dominate areas belonging to Al-Quds inside Syria, in addition to expanding its deployment outside its areas of presence; Clashes erupted between Hezbollah and Quds, revisiting the conflict inside Syria, and Hezbollah fighters stormed SDF checkpoints; This led to Hezbollah seizing control of two points around Nubl and Zahra.

The militias are also involved in the smuggling and manufacture of drugs inside Syria. A Hezbollah-linked leader was killed in Rif Dimashq in a car accident, but it later became clear that the car he was driving carried 4 million Captagon pills and various quantities of hashish.

The collision near Zaraa, a village 9 kilometers from the northern border of Lebanon, resulted in one death and several injuries. A large quantity of drugs was recovered, including approximately 3 million tablets of stimulant Captagon and 2 tons of hashish.

The incident comes as part of an ongoing effort to flood Syria with drugs by Iranian-affiliated militias led by Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

After years of war, Syria is emerging as a “narco-state,” with Jordanian intelligence intercepting Hezbollah members involved in drug trafficking, according to a report by the Middle East Institute.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said areas controlled by Syrian regime forces include pharmaceutical factories operating under Hezbollah’s supervision, which are said to produce large quantities of hashish and captagon among other drugs.

Dealers often try to smuggle drugs into the wealthy Gulf States. Last Wednesday, August 31, Saudi authorities seized one of the largest contraband seizures of amphetamine. Around 47 million tablets hidden in flour sacks were seized in a shipment that arrived in the dry port of Riyadh and was transferred to a warehouse.

In 2021, Saudi authorities banned the import of Lebanese fruits and vegetables after thwarting an attempt to smuggle more than five million Captagon pills inside the pomegranate fruits. Smugglers from Syria are known to hide drugs in various forms, including shipments of oranges, olives and pomegranates.

Syrian authorities recently confiscated one kilogram of Captagon, which was crushed and modified to look like chickpeas containers.