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Hezbollah denies links to drug kingpin killed in Syria

FILE PHOTO-Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters onscreen during a rally commemorating the group's late leaders in Jebshit village, southern Lebanon February 16, 2023. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

The head of Lebanon's powerful armed group Hezbollah on Friday denied his group was involved in narcotics smuggling and said it had no links to an alleged drug kingpin killed in Syria this week.

On Monday, rare Jordanian air strikes killed a drug smuggler in southern Syria and hit a narcotics factory that local and intelligence sources linked to Hezbollah.

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