Over 3,000 drug suspects arrested, 2 tons of narcotics seized in 2025: Iraq

Of the 3,006 arrests made in the first three months of 2025, 973 were convicted on drug-related charges, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry's General Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances.

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Iraq arrests over 1,500 suspected drug-traffickers in 2025

Authorities have vowed even stronger crackdowns on the drug trade in the coming period

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Iraq says arrested three suspected drug-traffickers

Iraq, with its extensive borders with Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, has evolved from a transit route to a significant drug consumption market.

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Iraq says dismantled ‘one of the most dangerous’ drug trafficking rings in Baghdad

The operation resulted in the arrest of nine individuals in relation to the network

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Kurdistan Region dismantles drug-trafficking network

An eleven people drug trafficking network was dismantled by security forces and over 26 kilograms of narcotics were seized.

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Iraq sentences drug trafficker to life

An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a drug trafficker to life imprisonment, saying the convict was caught in possession of 30,000 amphetamine pills with the intend to trade.

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Iraq sentences two to life on drug-related charges

The two had been in possession of 1,460 narcotic pills “for the purpose of trafficking and selling them among users.”

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Iraq arrests over 14,000 on drug-related charges in 2024

Iraqi courts issued 144 death sentences for suspected drug-traffickers in 2024

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Authorities seize 100,000 captagon pills in Iraq’s Najaf

Iraqi authorities have arrested 14,000 people on drug-related charges in 2024

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