Imprisoned mafia bosses are calling each other to conduct drug deals and even ordering “punitive expeditions” against their ...

Sicily’s tourist hot spots are living an economic boom thanks to shows like The White Lotus. But behind the beauty, its ...

A notorious Sicilian mob boss was allowed to celebrate his silver wedding anniversary in the church where a top mafia ...

Economic inequality fuels mafia exploitation, with wealthy enclaves thriving while impoverished areas provide fertile ground ...

In South Africa, the insidious grip of the construction mafia tightens, threatening not only businesses but the very fabric ...

Italian mafia boss Gioacchino Gammino escaped prison in 2002, fled to Spain, changed his name to Manuel and opened a ...

This might be the safest and most comfortable way to see the Mediterranean’s largest island, just off the “toe” of Italy’s ...

Fought over for centuries, the Sicilian capital has absorbed cultural influences over millennia and is being discovered anew ...

Credit: MARCO SIMONI/COLLECTION MIX A notorious Sicilian mob boss was ... home all the prominent members of the mafia district of Porta Nuova [an area of Palermo] and gave them instructions ...

On a recent trip to Sicily, the contrast between the flourishing tourism sector and the declines elsewhere was as stark as I’ve seen in more than 20 years of reporting on the island. In Palermo ...

In Palermo, the piazza around the cathedral ... But magistrates say it’s also because the Sicilian mafia and its Calabrian counterpart, ndrangheta, have grown more sophisticated, following ...

On a recent trip to Sicily, the contrast between the flourishing tourism sector and the declines elsewhere was as stark as I have seen in more than 20 years of reporting on the island. In Palermo, the ...