Damascus arrests two top traffickers and seizes 600,000 pills; the state monopoly gives way to warlords, with Jordan striking smuggling hubs across the southern border
Syria
The Aletar subsea cable between Tartous and Alexandria was severed on June 15; Syria rerouted via Cyprus and Turkey before splicing it back
Al-Sharaa calls a pact a 'necessity' and says results may come 'in coming days'; he calls a strike near the presidential palace 'a declaration of war' but refrains from responding
After a January government offensive took most DAANES territory, a US-brokered integration agreement holds on paper while fighting flickers and Mazloum Abdi's control wobbles