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Ammon News - Two Jordanian officials, who asked not to be named, said civilians had not been targeted in Syria, according to Reuters.

The officials also told Reuters that the strikes followed repeated warnings in high-level meetings with Syrian officials and that Jordan would take action if Syria continued to ignore requests to stop the alarming rise in drug-related incursions.

Syria said on Tuesday there was no justification for Jordanian air strikes on its territory that its neighbour said had targeted drug dealers whose border incursions posed a threat to Jordan's national security.

Reuters also stated that Jordan has stepped up a campaign against drug traffickers after clashes last month with dozens of people it suspects of links to pro-Iranian militias carrying large hauls of narcotics over its border from Syria, along with arms and explosives.

Further, they said the rise in incidents coincided with increasing attacks on U.S. bases in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria and in Iraq by pro-Iranian militias in solidarity with Palestinian militants fighting Israel's offensive in Gaza.

Jordanian officials say they have provided names of key drug dealers, manufacturing facilities and smuggling routes to Syrian authorities.

The Washington Post newspaper also reported that Smugglers have used Jordan as a corridor over the past years to smuggle highly addictive Captagon amphetamines out of Syria, mainly to oil-rich Arab Gulf states.

The Jordanian authorities have recently cracked down on smuggling attempts, including some in which smugglers used drones to fly the drugs over the border, the newspaper added.