Day: March 16, 2024

Vienna, Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Vienna, Hasan Khaddour, said that Syria is making unremitting efforts to combat drug trafficking and smuggling by adopting strategies and plans in this regard.

‘Syria, based on its national and humanitarian responsibility, and in implementation of its international obligations, has supported all means of cooperation in combating drugs and psychotropic substances, and has ratified the international conventions related to combating drugs,’ Ambassador Khaddour said in an official statement during a high-level meeting of the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

The Syrian diplomat added that Syria has suffered for more than thirteen years from an unjust terrorist war in which all weapons were used, including drugs when terrorist organizations used them as one of their tools and weapons, and a main source of funding, taking advantage of the complex political and security conditions and the geographical location of the Syrian
Arab Republic.

Ambassador Khaddour stressed that efforts exerted by the authorities concerned in Syria led to thwarting several narcotic smuggling operations and confiscating large quantities of narcotic substances. ‘During 2023, nearly 11,331 cases were seized and 10,024,166 Captagon pills were confiscated,’ he said.

Ambassador Khaddour concluded that the escalation of the drugs problem and the increase in the activity of drug dealers and smugglers make it imperative for us, more than ever before, to double the efforts and find appropriate and effective mechanisms to enhance cooperation, saying ‘Syria continues to implement its national strategy in the coming period from 2024 to 2029, and is open to all forms of cooperation in this regard.’

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Occupied Jerusalem, More than 80 civilians were martyred and dozens injured, at dawn on Saturday in several massacres perpetrated by Israeli occupation in multiple areas of Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation army bombed a (seven-storey) residential building housing displaced persons near al-Shifa Hospital, and multiple homes in al-Nuseirat camp in central strip, resulting more than 80 civilians were martyred and dozens injured, with the majority being children and women, Palestinian media reported.

Yesterday, Israeli occupation committed 13 massacres in Gaza leaving 149 martyrs and 300 injuries, bringing the toll of the ongoing aggression on the Strip since the 7th of last October, according to the latest statistics of the Palestinian Health Ministry, to 31,490 martyrs and 73,439 wounded, while a large number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads due to the occupation preventing the access of ambulance staff and civil defense to them.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Occupied Jerusalem, A Palestinian prisoner was martyred Saturday in Israeli occupation prisons as a result of the ongoing policy of deliberate medical neglect against detainees.

Palestinian detainee Juma Abu Ghanima, 26, has died in the Israeli prison of Negev due to the deterioration of his health situation and his suffering from diseases as a result of medical negligence, the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement quoted by Wafa Agency.

Number of prisoners and detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since October 7 to rose 13 martyrs due to torture and medical negligence.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Damascus, Syrian national football team coach Hector Cuper announced the list of national team players that will play in Myanmar on March 21st and 26th for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2027 AFC Asian Cup joint qualifiers.

The list included Ibrahim Alama, Ahmed Madaniyah, Taha Musa, Elias Hadiya, Ayham Owusu, Thaer Kroma, Amr Midani, Moayed Al-Khouly, Moayed Al-Ajan, Abdel-Rahman Wais, Amr Janiyat, Khalil Elias, Mahmoud Dahoud, Ezaquiel Al-Amm, Fahd Al-Youssef, Al-Mar Ibrahim, Ammar Ramadan, Mahmoud Al-Aswad, Daliho Erandest, Noah Chamoun, Ibrahim Hisar, Alaa Al-Dali, and Mardik Mardikian.

Our team will head for Myanmar on Saturday evening in preparation for meeting its national team in the first leg, and will face it again in the Saudi city of Dammam in the return match.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Damascus, Units of the army and armed forces working in Idleb and Aleppo countryside, in cooperation with Russian friendly air force, carried out several special military operations in the past 24 hours.

The operations targeted dens of terrorist organizations, fortifications and their different ammunition of armored vehicles, in response to their continued attacks launched against safe towns and villages.

The army tactical operations completely destroyed dens of the terrorists, killed and injured tens of them.

The army units also monitored movements of the terrorists in a number of sites in Idleb countryside, targeted them through drones and eliminated several terrorists.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Raqqa, Twelve citizens were martyred and eight others were injured in landmine explosions left behind by terrorist organizations in Raqqa southern countryside.

Raqqa Governor Abdul Razzaq Khalifa told SANA reporter that a landmine left behind by terrorists went off, causing the martyrdom of twelve citizens from al-Sharida al-Gharbiyah village, including 11 women, while eight others got injured in another landmine blast during searching for truffles in Rajm al-Ajouz area in the southern desert of Raqqa province.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency