Members of the anti-Iran MKO terrorist group have been arrested for drug smuggling, human trafficking and money laundering, according to a report.

At least eleven people were killed in two separate armed attacks in Mexico, officials said on Monday.

Colombia sends 14,000 military soldiers to a restive northern region bordering Venezuela to allegedly combat drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime funding.

Syria's defense minister has made a rare visit to neighboring Jordan to discuss issues such as the fight against terrorism and drug smuggling, as well as the situation in the southern city of Dara’a.

Colombia boosts troop presence on borders with Venezuela after five Colombian soldiers were killed in an attack claimed by the National Liberation Army (ELN) and FARC, guerrillas.

Russia’s security chief says the United States turned Afghanistan into a global illicit drug laboratory in the past 20 years, and says Russia would set no preconditions for potential military presence in the war-ravaged country.

Iran’s permanent representative to Vienna-based international organizations says confronting the world’s drug problem requires shared responsibility by all countries.

At least 14 people, including two children, have been massacred in a remote area of central Peru.

Seuxis Paucias Hernandez, known in Colombia by his nom de guerre Jesus Santrich, was traveling on a truck in the western Venezuelan state of Zulia when he was attacked by a Colombian commando unit that had illegally crossed the border, a group of former FARC members has claimed.

A senior Iranian diplomat says the unilateral sanctions on Iran have been hampering the country's fight against smuggling of illicit drugs.