Under El Mencho's leadership, CJNG expanded aggressively through violence and strategic alliances.

Amid the ongoing crackdown on drugs in Punjab, a powerful example of community-led action has emerged from Khanna in the Ludhiana district.

The hills of Jalisco echoed with gunfire before dawn on Sunday. By the time the smoke cleared, Mexico's most wanted man, Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, or El Mencho, was bleeding in the back of a military vehicle.

With the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, or El Mencho, Mexican forces have dealt a major blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, responsible for drug trafficking and attacks across the country.

Over the past decade, CJNG evolved from a regional trafficking network into a structured armed organisation. Under El Mencho, the cartel expanded rapidly across several states and built strong international links, in synthetic drug trafficking

School was canceled in several Mexican states and local and foreign governments alike warned their citizens to stay inside, as widespread violence erupted following the army's killing of the powerful leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

The Mexican army killed the country's most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States' most wanted fugitives, notching a major victory while cartel members responded with a wave violence across the country.

Mexico's most wanted man and the leader of the feared drug cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) has been killed in a military operation to arrest him.

The Mexican army announced Sunday that it had killed powerful drug lord Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera in an operation that sparked a wave of violence in various parts of the country.

In jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's underworld syndicate, a network of women has risen to positions of significant operational control, carrying out extortion demands, drug trafficking, assassinations and kidnappings on behalf of the gang.

The US military said Friday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday he had escaped an assassination attempt hours earlier after months of warnings about an alleged plot by drug traffickers to attack him.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab spokesperson and MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Tuesday raised serious questions over Governor Gulab Chand Kataria's "anti-drug yatra."

Questioning of an accused in a counterfeit currency case led police to bust a drug trafficking racket, resulting in the recovery of 1937.80 grams of cocaine worth Rs 19.37 crore in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district.

Mounting tensions between local residents and Bengali migrant workers in Perumbavoor, a key industrial hub in the suburbs of Kochi, have triggered an extensive police crackdown.

President Donald Trump's years-long crusade to dislodge Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, a mission he finally accomplished this month, was billed as a way to thwart drug trafficking, check migration and revive Venezuela's oil industry.

The US military said that it has carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro earlier this month.

The Special Cell of the Delhi Police has arrested a key accused from Sikkim in connection with a massive Rs 13,000 crore international narcotics smuggling case linked to the seizure of a massive consignment of cocaine, mephedrone and Thai marijuana,

An Indian-origin couple, along with three others, have been arrested in Virginia, United States, for drug and sex trafficking after federal and local agents raided a motel at the centre of the criminal activity.

In a major crackdown on narcotics trafficking, the Delhi Police Crime Branch unit has dismantled an international drug syndicate operated by Nigerian nationals, seizing cocaine and MDMA tablets worth nearly Rs 5 crore.

280 gangsters were among the 854 criminals arrested by the Delhi Police in a 48-hour-long crackdown across five states as part of Delhi Police's largest ever operation against organised crime.

Styled like an edited Wikipedia page, an image, posted on social media, displayed Trump's official portrait and listed him as the "acting president of Venezuela".

A 67-year-old woman was arrested for alleged involvement in an organised illegal firearms trafficking syndicate that supplied weapons to gangsters and dreaded criminals operating in Delhi-NCR, an official said on Saturday.

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed alarm that a man who worked as his family's bodyguard is facing federal drug trafficking charges.