Army and security chiefs from Jordan and Syria met on Sunday to curb a growing drug trade along their mutual border that has seen deadly skirmishes, blamed mainly on pro-Iranian militias who hold sway in southern Syria.
The meeting comes after Syria's neighbours got a pledge from Damascus during a meeting last May in Amman to cooperate with their efforts to rein in Syria's flourishing drug trade in exchange for helping end its pariah status after a brutal crackdown of peaceful protesters during the civil war.
Syria is accused by Arab governments and the West of producing the highly-addictive and lucrative amphetamine captagon and organising its smuggling into the Gulf, with Jordan a main transit route. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government denies involvement in drug-making and smuggling or complicity by Iranian-backed militias linked to its army and security forces. Iran says the allegations are part of Western plots against the country.
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