A severed horse’s head has been left on the property of a businessman in Sicily in an act of mafia intimidation reminiscent ...

"The rural Mafia was trying to drive us off ... Cesare believes the battle against them pits modern Italy against forces that want Sicily to remain rooted in the ways of the past.

The Sicilian mafia is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – institutions in the Western world. After its first appearance in Sicily in the 1870s it soon infiltrated the economic and ...

More than a year has sped by since, at Premier Mussolini’s orders, the dread Mafia (or Black Hand organization) was hunted down on the island of Sicily, captured, jailed. For centuries the Mafia ...

Two of those arrested in the US were described as American-based members of the Sicilian Mafia, while at least ... who has written several books about modern organised crime.

Letizia Battaglia was one of Italy's most important social documentary photographers, best known for her work exposing Mafia ...

The head of the Sicilian Mafia, on the run for over 20 year, has been using "sheep code" to communicate with allies, the BBC reports. Eleven men associated with mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro were ...

Police across Europe arrested 43 people and seized 520 million euros ($547 million) in a European investigation into a criminal conspiracy to evade VAT through money laundering and mafia activity, the ...