Cartel Watch

The Taliban unquestionably have drastically reduced opium poppy cultivation during the 2022-2023 growing season, roughly duplicating the percentage reduction they achieved in 2000-2001 when

One soldier was killed and 12 were injured Wednesday in an attack with explosives on a military unit in western Colombia that the army

Mexican authorities on Wednesday rescued 31 migrants who had been abducted over the weekend by armed men near the border with Texas, officials said.

A drug cartel in central Mexico has kidnapped 14 local residents, including four children, in apparent retaliation for an uprising by angry farmers in

Citing a criminal complaint filed on December 12 in the US District Court in Portland, Oregon, the Willamette Week newspaper reported that US law

Texas authorities have arrested nearly 10,000 migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border under a new “arrest and jail” operation aimed at deterring illegal

Migrant numbers at the southern border in December have broken the record for monthly encounters. Customs and Border Protection sources say there have been

Three gunmen pulled up to a party early on Friday in northern Mexico and opened fire on partygoers, killing six people and wounding 26

Mexican officials worked with bulldozers Wednesday to clear out a ragged migrant tent camp next to the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico. Migrants at

Top Biden administration officials meet in Mexico for migration talk Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met