The Jordanian military on Sunday downed a drone carrying crystal meth that was flying into Jordanian territory from neighbouring Syria, the state news agency Petra reported. War-torn Syria has become a hub for a multi-billion-dollar drugs trade, with Jordan a main transit route to the...

Zaman al-Wasl learned that the Lebanese Hezbollah militia produced a new type of Captagon narcotic pills in a border town in the western countryside of Damascus for the first time within one of its military headquarters. A private source said that the militia has equipped one of its largest...

The sound of repeated explosions could be heard in the area around the Syrian capital before dawn on Sunday, state media and Damascus residents said. There was no immediate statement from government officials on the source or target of the attack, but similar incidents in the past have...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an ambush in eastern Syria that killed and wounded dozens of soldiers as opposition activists said the death toll rose Saturday to at least 33 as some of the wounded succumbed to their injuries. The attack is among the...