US human trafficking report elicits anger from several countries

Shopkeepers sue Sicilian Mafia in first-ever migrant-led case

Italy’s mafia gets richer as ‘security decree’ strips migrant rights

‘El Chapo’ trial puts drug lord’s love life, business dealings on full display

Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ from Mexico begins his trial in the US

Joint US-Mexico effort to focus on drug kingpins’ financial infrastructure

Unprecedented wave of political violence rocks Mexico

Japanese crime boss held in Thailand after ‘yakuza’ tattoos go viral

On Nantucket, a teenage migrant gets swept up in a crackdown on Salvadoran gangs

The US government is targeting MS-13, but a former gang member says arrests alone won’t solve the problem

What’s the reason nine bikers were killed in Texas? A patch.

A heavily armed ‘paramilitary’ cartel unleashes violence in Mexico’s second-biggest city

Mexico captures its most-wanted drug lord, but Mexicans are still angry

Remembering Ariel Camacho, the 22-year-old star of Mexico’s narcocorridos

A Pakistani girl survives a Taliban attack on her school by playing dead

How the Taliban took control of organized crime in Pakistan’s largest city

‘If they are going to kill us, let them kill us for a just cause,’ say Mexican citizens

‘You send your children away because, like human beings everywhere, you want them to have a decent life’

A casual boast solves a century-old mafia murder in Sicily

The changing role for women in Afghanistan

Four kidnapped Mexican journalists remain missing

Recasting the Taliban as mobsters

Should the US reconsider its support for African ‘strongmen’

Chile’s earthquake could have been much worse

When the pope denounces the mafia, there’s a reason it is news

Iranians build an American aircraft carrier, sort of

Canada’s most notorious mobster dies

Drug lords pay this Mexican-American singer to write their ballads

A Catholic bishop in Mexico takes on the Knights Templar drug cartel

In the land of Capone, Colombian immigrants struggle to imagine kingpin Pablo Escobar as a tourist draw

Jellyfish bring down a nuclear power plant, but politicians fail to bring down Italy – in today’s global scan

Hells Angels Open a Store in Toronto

Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

Violence Across the Mideast: Are Islamic Radicals Stronger than Ever?

Brutal Zetas cartel leader’s capture expected to splinter group

Taliban offers to exchange American Army prisoner

Angered Karzai walks away from peace talks with United States, Taliban

Mexico’s Zetas gang joins coal mining business for bigger profits

In Mexico, family members left to investigate disappearances of loved ones

U.S. plans stepped up efforts to combat human trafficking

Amidst Colombian violence, arts forge an alternative path

Brave Pakistani girl, targeted for speaking out, transferred to U.K. for medical treatment

Mexican Navy, playing leading role in drug war, loses body of cartel leader it killed

Salvadoran killed while waiting on U.S. immigration papers

Sex trafficking of women has nexus in Queens borough of New York City

In national address, Obama pledges to ‘finish the job’ in Afghanistan

Journalism soldiers on in Pakistan despite obvious dangers

Taliban call off talks with U.S. as tensions mount in Afghanistan

Afghans, Taliban, U.S. in three-way talks that offer ‘best chance’ for peace

VIDEO: U.S. Marines accused of urinating on bodies of dead Taliban

VIDEO: Taliban agrees to open liaison office in Gulf state of Qatar

Afghanistan’s widows face a bleak fight for survival

Two Florida Imams accused of supporting Taliban

Draining the pool of Yemen’s terrorism potential

Young Sicilians say goodbye to mafia bribes

Outlook for peace in Afghanistan

Report claims al-Qaeda greatly weakened

Making bread to fight the Taliban

Understanding Pakistan

Fighting in Pakistan’s Swat Valley