Saudi authorities on Wednesday beheaded a Syrian for drug trafficking in the kingdom's northwestern region of Jawf, the interior ministry announced.
Omar al-Nasser was arrested while smuggling a "large amount of amphetamines," the interior ministry said in a statement on the official SPA
news agency. His beheading brings to 116 the number of executions this year in the kingdom, compared with 87 for the whole of 2014, according to AFP tallies.