Police say suspect confessed to 12 smuggling operations to Egypt, Qatar, Yemen, the UAE, Sudan and Saudi Arabia
illegal drugs
Dubai
Dubai Police seize $76m drugs in UAE’s largest ever haul
Two international drug smuggling gangs have been captured in the largest anti-narcotics operation in the UAE’s history
Ahmed Mahboob Musabih
Dubai sniffer dogs help seize over 5.7m Captagon pills
Pills hidden in a foodstuff container arriving into Dubai from an unnamed Arab country at the Jebel Ali and Tecom Customs Centre
Arab world
Opinion: Action needed to tackle rising drug use among Arab youth
Stricter laws are not enough to overcome this challenge – there is an urgent need to look at this problem from a social, economic and even political angle, writes Osama Al-Sharif
Arab world
Illegal drugs are easy to find, stricter laws needed to curb rising usage – Arab Youth Survey
Arab youth say peer pressure is the main cause of the rising use of illegal substances
illegal drugs
Sharjah police arrest 19 after 20kg drugs bust
Suspects said to use social media to promote haul of heroin and crystal meth
Dhofar
Oman police seize illegal drugs off Dhofar coast
Three Arab nationals arrested on board the boat