Jordanian border forces on Monday seized a drone carrying drugs as it flew in from Syria, a military official said.
The announcement came a day after a meeting between Syrian and Jordanian officials to discuss the cross-border narcotics smuggling.
The official said in a statement that border forces monitored the drone as it crossed into a north-eastern area of Jordan.
“It was intercepted inside Jordanian territory,” he said.
The drone was carrying 2kg of crystal methamphetamine, which was “turned over to the relevant authorities", he said.
The authorities announced several similar interceptions this year, as the military, with support from the US and other western countries, strengthened border defences to curb drug smuggling from Syria.
A boom in the drug trade has been a main by-product of the war economy in Syria.
It is centred in southern areas that fell to the Syrian military in 2018, after a deal between Russia – Damascus's most powerful supporter – the US and Israel to hand over the areas to President Bashar Al Assad's forces.
Jordan has accused the Syrian military and pro-Iran militias in southern Syria of overseeing the smuggling.
On Sunday, Syrian Defence Minister Ali Mahmoud was in Amman, where he discussed with Jordanian officials ways to curb smuggling.
The meeting was the first for a joint security committee that the two sides agreed to set up at the start of this month to deal with the issue, particularly the amphetamine known as Captagon.
On May 8, a Jordanian air strike killed a Syrian drug dealer in the area, three days before Damascus was readmitted to the Arab League.
The story in numbers
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This is how many recognised sects Lebanon is home to, along with about four million citizens
450,000
More than this many Palestinian refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, with about 45 per cent of them living in the country’s 12 refugee camps
1.5 million
There are just under 1 million Syrian refugees registered with the UN, although the government puts the figure upwards of 1.5m
73
The percentage of stateless people in Lebanon, who are not of Palestinian origin, born to a Lebanese mother, according to a 2012-2013 study by human rights organisation Frontiers Ruwad Association
18,000
The number of marriages recorded between Lebanese women and foreigners between the years 1995 and 2008, according to a 2009 study backed by the UN Development Programme
77,400
The number of people believed to be affected by the current nationality law, according to the 2009 UN study
4,926
This is how many Lebanese-Palestinian households there were in Lebanon in 2016, according to a census by the Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue committee
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