Antoine Kassis, a cousin of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, has been sentenced to 30 years in a US prison after being convicted in a transnational narco-terrorism case involving cocaine ...

More than any other U.S. president in decades, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued military interventions in Latin America. On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás ...

Nicolás Maduro appeared in a Manhattan federal court Thursday as the US pushes forward with a broad drug-trafficking and narco-terrorism conspiracy case against the ousted Venezuelan leader that’s ...

(CNN) — The killing of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, aka “El Mencho,” could fuel a turf wars among drug-trafficking gangs in Mexico and beyond, analysts say, with the rival Sinaloa cartel ...

Federal authorities in San Diego have long alleged that brothers René and Alfonso Arzate Garcia are high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel who, for roughly 15 years, have used violence and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michelle D. Paranzino, US Naval War College (THE CONVERSATION) More than any other U.S ...