Fanara, from Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra clan, was nine years into his sentence under Italy's tough “41-bis” prison regime usually applied to mafia members. A Sicilian mafia boss serving a ...

which prosecutors hailed as dealing a major blow to Cosa Nostra bosses’ attempts to rebuild and reorganize the group’s central power structure. The Sicilian mafia has declined in recent years ...

Investigations located the presence of encrypted mobile phones in prisons, where the detained mafia bosses, thanks to highly sophisticated devices, could communicate with the outside world and ...

Dutch police thought he was the head of the Sicilian mafia who has been on the run for decades. Dutch police thought he was head of the Sicilian mafia who has been on the run for nearly 30 years.

An Italian fugitive accused of having coordinated the shipment of large cocaine cargoes from Latin America to Europe has been ...

Authorities noted that while the Sicilian mafia remains tied to traditional ... operations and communications between imprisoned bosses and their associates were conducted through encrypted ...

ROME (Reuters) - Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo ... a town outside Palermo that was the birthplace of notorious bosses Toto ...

The Sicilian mafia is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous ... affiliated with Antonino Giammona, the boss of Uditore, a borough of Palermo, resulted in two replacement wardens being shot.