Italian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, was captured in Sicily's capital, Palermo, on Monday. He is implicated in multiple murders and believed be the head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, the convicted mastermind of some of the Cosa Nostra mafia's most heinous slayings, died in Sept. 2023, several months after being captured as Italy's No. 1 fugitive and ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, who is thought to have ordered dozens of Mafia-related murders for the Cosa Nostra crime group, died at the San Salvatore hospital in L’Aquila, central Italy, where he had ...

Mafia bosses have been secretly moaning about the "miserable" quality of recruits leaving them "on our knees" -- while dreaming it could be more like "The Godfather." ...

“Cosa Nostra,” the mafia syndicate based in and around Palermo, terrorized Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since been overtaken as Europe’s most powerful mob by the Calabrian ...

ROME — Italian police officers on Tuesday arrested 181 people believed to be affiliated with the Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian mafia is known, dealing what officials said was an “important blow ...

The arrests in Palermo indicate that “Cosa Nostra” has remained a significant criminal force despite setbacks in recent decades. IE 11 is not supported.

Despite being weakened by law enforcement activities, Cosa Nostra continues to attract young people, the Carabinieri said, noting they documented one instance of a new recruit given “mafia ...