Michoacán state Mayor Carlos Manzo, who called for a take-no-prisoners approach to Mexico's drug cartels, is slain while ...

Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

Teenage girls are hiring themselves out as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars, keen to prove they are more deadly and ruthless than young men, prosecutors say. "I had a case involving a 15-year ...

InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott provided expert analysis to Deutsche Welle News after President Donald Trump ...

An Obama-era Pentagon report called for “direct military action” in the drug war, presaging Trump’s brazen strikes on boats ...

A documentary revisits the vicious battle for control of organized crime in Philadelphia that broke out in the 1990s.

MEXICO CITY (CN) — In her morning press conference on Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to the murder of ...

In the case of illegal drugs, the negative health effects are actually exacerbated by prohibition. The fentanyl crisis is itself largely a result of the War on Drugs, a predictable consequence of the ...

The federal gambling indictments indicate the New York mafia may be more powerful than experts previously believed.