Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, indicating that it ...

Mafia godfathers in Sicily have been caught on wiretaps lamenting the “miserable” calibre of new recruits as nearly 150 ...

In the early 1990s crusading anti-mafia prosecutors were murdered as they tried to hit back. Then in 1993 the so-called boss ...

Mob bosses in Sicily are said to think new recruits have gone soft, so are encouraging wannabe gangsters to watch Francis ...

A total of 1,200 officers were involved in the operation aimed at dismantling mafia clans in several districts of the capital ...

Warrants were issued against a total of 183 people, 36 of whom were already in custody, for crimes including attempted murder, extortion and drug trafficking, police said.

ITALIAN gangsters kidnapped a man and dissolved his body in acid by mistake after they thought he was the lover of a fellow ...

Though mobsters terrorised Sicily for decades, harsh crackdowns in the 1990s and early 2000s seriously weakened the Cosa ...

Italian police on Tuesday arrested 183 suspected mafia members in a major clampdown on Cosa Nostra clans based in Palermo.

Pope Francis has declared a sort of holy war on the Mafia. And it's not unreasonable to believe that the Mafia may fight back. On Saturday, the pope traveled to Calabria, the heartland of one of ...