The Syrian news network - "Media River" learned from private sources that surveillance teams affiliated with the intelligence of the "People's Recruitment" militia arrested a number of Hezbollah militia members in Iraq, in possession of 5 boxes of narcotics (captagon).

According to sources, Iraqi al-Hashibi militia intelligence sources arrested the operatives with drugs in their possession on the Iraqi side, after being brought in during the day from the Syrian side for questioning on suspicion of drug trafficking.

Sources added that preliminary investigations revealed that the narcotic pills (Captagon) belonged to a smuggler from the city of Homs, who had earlier brought them from Lebanon to Homs and from there to the border town of al-Hari in the al-Bukmal countryside near the Iraqi border for delivery to Hizbullah militia For handing them over to the Iraqi side for a large sum of money.