Syria's alleged drug traffickers are warned via SMS messaging

Text messages advising against engaging in the illegal trade have started to arrive for drug traffickers working along Jordan's southern border with Syria.

Nine days had passed after a smuggler had been murdered in a strange airstrike in southern Syria when the alerts were sent.

“We recognize you. Your every step is being observed.” According to a claimed transcript of the texts made available by the Suwayda24 network of citizen journalists in southern Syria, "Your meetings are being watched."

Jordan is looking to work with Damascus to stop the flow of narcotics because it serves as a major conduit for what Arab authorities characterize as a multibillion-dollar trade in the amphetamine known as Captagon.

The 360-kilometer border between Jordan and Syria is regularly used to smuggle captagon tablets, and the trade has been expanding since 2018.

The majority of the southern region of Syria was retaken by the Syrian military from rebels backed by Arab and western nations in the same year.

A major driving force for Jordan's efforts to normalize relations with President Bashar Al Assad and efforts by Amman, Saudi Arabia, and other nations to reinstate Damascus' membership in the Arab League has been the reduction of Captagon trafficking.

After Syrian government tanks invaded cities all around the nation to quell large-scale protests against Mr. Assad, who has ruled since 2000, its membership was suspended in November 2011.

Saudi Arabia, which in March agreed to a detente overseen by China with Iran, Mr. Assad's primary regional supporter, gave Jordanian efforts a boost.

Jordanian authorities have charged Iran-backed militias with funding the trafficking, much of which passes through Jordanian territory on its way to Saudi Arabia.

The notes request that the traffickers surrender to Jordanian border patrol agents.

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