by Kifah Ziboun | Mar 20, 2017 | Middle East
Ramallah – Hamas intensified its war on drugs and drug dealers in Gaza Strip as part of the campaign launched to end the spreading of narcotics. A military court sentenced on Sunday two drug dealers to death, the first such punishment handed down by the Palestinian...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 20, 2017 | Middle East, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh – Saudi Border Guards recently thwarted several attempts to plant land mines and smuggle weapons and more than half ton of weed at the southern border, according to the Saudi Ministry of Interior. Thirty smugglers were arrested, including 19 Ethiopians,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 4, 2017 | Middle East
Security services in Egypt and Saudi Arabia succeeded in arresting a criminal network that tried to smuggle millions of narcotic pills from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. The Interior Ministry’s security spokesman Major General Mansour Al-Turki said in a statement yesterday...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 19, 2016 | Saudi Arabia
Riyadh- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, deputy premier and minister of interior, who is also the president of the National Narcotics Control Commission, reaffirmed the keenness of the government to combat everything that could cause harm to the citizenry and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 7, 2016 | Saudi Arabia
Riyadh-Saudi authorities arrested two networks that smuggle and promote narcotics. The two cells comprised seven Saudis, three Syrians, an Indian and a Pakistani. The Saudi Interior Ministry security spokesperson explained that in the framework of the implementation...
