Jordan conducts airstrike on Iran-linked drug facility in southern Syria.

Jordan carried out air strikes on a drugs factory in southern Syria linked to Iran-backed Hezbollah and killed a Syrian drug kingpin and his family in a nearby village. The strikes were a response to the rise in drug smuggling across the border and a warning to Damascus not to mistake Amman's resolve. Jordan is a main transit route for captagon, a cheap amphetamine produced in Syria, and has grown impatient with the Iran-backed drug war, which poses a threat to its national security and Gulf countries.