Airstrikes, reportedly carried out early this morning by Jordan, killed 10 people, including children, according to local Syrian media and conflict observers.

So far there is no comment from the Jordanian authorities.

The Jordanian Army has stepped up a campaign against drug dealers in recent weeks following clashes last month with dozens of people suspected of links to pro-Iranian militias who were transporting large quantities of drugs across the Syrian border, along with weapons and explosives.

Local media outlet Sham FM reported that Jordanian airstrikes hit two houses in the town of Arman in the southern Suwayda province, killing people.

Suwayda24, a Syrian news website monitoring developments in the province, reported that simultaneous overnight airstrikes hit Arman district in the southeastern part of the province, near the border with Jordan.

According to the same source, from the raids 10 civilians were killed – two children, five women and three men. However, this source did not mention any Jordanian strikes.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war in Syria, said at least nine people were killed by Jordanian strikes in Suwayda, including two children.

Jordan and its Western allies blame the increase in smuggling on the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah and other pro-Iranian groups that control much of southern Syria.

Iran and Hezbollah have dismissed the accusations as a Western conspiracy against their ally Syria, which has also denied involvement in drug production and trafficking.

The war-torn Middle Eastern country has become the center of a multibillion-dollar drug trade, with Jordan a major transit route to the oil-rich Gulf states of a Syrian-made amphetamine known as captagon, officials have said. US and Western drug enforcement officials.