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 ...

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.

It has been 33 years since anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was blown up by Cosa Nostra in front of his mother’s home in Palermo, Sicily. His death on July 19 1992 came 57 days after the murder ...

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 ...

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." ...

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.

'Super mafia' fears as 'leading figures from Italy's three most powerful mobs' - 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra - are 'seen sharing a meal of wine and pasta together' ...

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 decapitated Cosa Nostra is reorganising itself – over banquets The Sicilian clans are trying to regroup and strengthen the organisation – and enjoy themselves at the same time Michael Day ...

Cosa Nostra boss remains at large after 40 years on the run Sicily's infamous code of silence still protects 'capo di capi' who went into hiding in 1963. Peter Popham.

“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 ...