Jordanian warplanes struck warehouses and buildings in Suweida (a southern Syrian province bordering Jordan, home mainly to the Druze minority) last weekend, targeting facilities linked to alleged drug traffickers who traffic captagon — a cheap amphetamine-based stimulant — into Jordan and the wider Gulf region. Experts say captagon production, once overseen by figures within the Assad regime, has shifted to border areas like Suweida since Assad's fall, with smugglers now using helium-filled balloons and drones to move the pills across the frontier. The strikes, described by Al Jazeera as carried out in full coordination with Syria's new central government, underscore the deepening regional crisis around the trade, though residents of the area fear becoming caught in the crossfire between criminal networks and competing political and military forces.