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

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

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.

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

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

The Italian government on Tuesday arrested no fewer than 130 people in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian mafia in ...

Italian police arrested 181 suspected mafia members in a major raid, dealing a “hard blow” to Cosa Nostra’s attempt at a ...

Forced to live under police protection, the writer has become one of the main intellectual opponents of the Italian prime ...

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

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

The Sicilian Mafia, the inspiration for the "Godfather" movies, is no longer the force it once was, subject to years of ...

The landmark ruling found the Italian Republic was guilty of violating citizens' right to life by failing "to deal with the ...