Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping ...

Additional US Marines being sent to Haiti to defend the embassy from gang attacks face a grim reality: They’re increasingly ...

Humans are trafficked for two main reasons: sexual exploitation, mostly of women and girls, and forced labour, which ensnares ...

Dozens of large knives and weapons have been seized during an operation targeting street gangs amid a concerning rise in ...

Katsina state, in Nigeria's far north, is a case in point. It has long been synonymous with insecurity - particularly ...

Official data reveals a 33% surge in smuggling arrests, convictions and seizures of criminal cash and assets following Keir ...

The U.S. did not name the person it sanctioned in its announcement, but economist, former central bank governor and ...

From the expansion of the gangs and their enterprises to commercialization and franchising, American biker gangs have changed a lot since the 1940s.

A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and ...

The latest exchange of gunfire between U.S. Marines and suspected gang members, who are part of the Viv Ansanm gang coalition, unfolded during scaled up security operations last week. The multi-day ...

The Memphis Safe Task Force is on city streets making arrests, and we’re told that gang members are a big part of who they ...

Criminal gangs are buying up haulage firms to pose as truckers and steal goods by the lorryload, the BBC has learned. We ...