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." ...

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

The presumed new boss of the Cosa Nostra mafia was arrested together with 45 other top mobsters, Italian authorities said Tuesday, striking a massive blow to the resurging Sicilian Mafia.

Arrest deals blow to Cosa Nostra's identity Messina Denaro played role in bomb attacks during the early 1990s Messina Denaro was Italy's most wanted mafia boss 'It is the end of a myth,' says ...

Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, the last of Cosa Nostra's leaders, arrested after 30-year manhunt By Anna Matranga January 16, 2023 / 7:31 AM EST / CBS News ...

Rome (Reuters) — Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, indicating that it has remained a significant criminal force despite ...

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” to a ...

A total of 183 people were arrested on Tuesday in Palermo, the capital of Sicily (Italy), in a significant security forces operation that dismantled a new attempt to rebuild the Cosa Nostra dome ...

The mafia boss is the last known face of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. But his capture represents the end of an era, not the end of the mafia in Sicily.