"The Albanian mafia would call me and say: 'We want to send 500kg of drugs.' If you don't accept, they kill you." César (not his real name) is a member of the Latin Kings, a criminal drug gang in ...

Record-breaking cocaine seizures in Portugal in 2024 have cemented the country’s status as a crucial axis in drug trafficking routes into Europe. In 2024, Portugal set a historic high of 22.5 tons of ...

Colombia's navy has uncovered a new drug smuggling route from South America to Australia after intercepting a "narco submarine" packed with cocaine in the Pacific Ocean. The discovery was made during ...

President Donald Trump has linked his administration’s attacks on drug vessels in Latin America to the fentanyl crisis, among other drugs. Here's what the data shows.

The U.S. government has placed Costa Rica on its annual list of major drug transit or production countries for fiscal year 2026. President Donald Trump signed the determination, identifying 23 nations ...

Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets in 2024. Across the board, cocaine production soared and traffickers ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - West Africans are consuming more of the drugs trafficked between South America and Europe, raising the specter of rising crime and health problems in already unstable states, experts ...

When the United States military launched an airstrike on a speedboat as it approached the southern shore of the Dominican Republic last month, killing three people on board, Dominican authorities said ...

NEW DELHI – Intelligence agencies have raised serious concerns regarding the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate’s move to exploit South Indian routes to bolster its drug business. Reports indicate the ...