Security forces seized SR1.7 billion worth of narcotics and arrested 681 men involved in drug smuggling and trafficking during the past four months, an official said yesterday.

Iranian police forces have discovered and seized 3 tons of Crystal meth (Methamphetamine) during the current Iranian year (ends on March 19) as Iranian police and judiciary officials intensified measures against chemically produced addictive substances, an Iranian police chief said on Monday.

Security forces have arrested 475 people for being allegedly involved in smuggling and trafficking drugs worth more than SR1.71 billion (approx. € 334 mln) into the Kingdom during the last four months.

The co-operation between the Dubai Police and the international security agencies have resulted in the arrest of an international gang of 16 persons

The United States accused one of Lebanon’s largest banks on Thursday of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars a month for a multinational drug trafficking organization with ties to Hezbollah

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday it was targeting a Lebanon-based drug trafficking and money laundering network suspected of doing as much as $200 million a month in business.

Three suspects arrested after forming an international team which included six members of Dubai police

Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have trafficked heroin from Afghanistan

A United Nations agency will report that opium poppy production has fallen in Afghanistan this year but there are enough stocks to keep supplying heroin production, the agency's new chief said on Wednesday

The Middle East leads the world in amphetamine seizures but governments in the region have been slow to admit there is a drug abuse problem, hindering efforts to fight it