At least 10 people, including two girls and five women, were killed today, Thursday, in air strikes that were likely Jordanian in the governorate. Suwayda In southern Syria, according to local Syrian media.
Local Sham FM radio reported that Jordanian air strikes targeted two homes in the town of Arman in Suwayda Governorate, southern Syria, resulting in deaths.
The Syrian news website “Suwayda 24” said that simultaneous air strikes struck the town of Arman at night in the southeast of the governorate, located on the Jordanian border. He added that the raids killed two girls, 5 women, and 3 men, but he did not specify that the raids were Jordanian.
In one house, a man was killed along with members of his family, including his wife and two daughters, and in the other house, a man and two women were killed.
Agence France-Presse quoted the editor-in-chief of the Suwayda 24 network, Rayan Marouf, as saying, “It is said that the two targeted men, who were killed along with their family in the strikes, work in the drug trade.”
There was no comment from the Jordanian army – which rarely announces raids in Syria – but it has been active for years in thwarting weapons and drug smuggling operations coming from Syria, especially after it turned into a route for drug smuggling, specifically Captagon, which is manufactured in Syria and exported to… Gulf countries.
On January 5, the official Al-Mamlaka Channel reported that Jordan had carried out two raids inside Syria “as part of the pursuit of drug smugglers.” It quoted a source as saying, “The raids only target people linked to drug traffickers.”
Jordanian aircraft launched raids several times inside Syrian territory, especially near the Jordanian border, mainly targeting drug smuggling and trade operations, which Amman has repeatedly announced its intention to confront and cooperate with Damascus to confront.
Last December, 5 Syrians, including two children and a woman, were killed in Jordanian strikes in Suwayda, near the Jordanian-Syrian border. The Jordanian army announced at the time the killing, wounding, and arrest of a number of Syrian drug smugglers during clashes.
In May 2023, a known drug trafficker was killed along with his wife and their six children as a result of an air strike that targeted their home in southern Syria.
