An explosive device killed six soldiers and wounded two others in a western Mexican region wracked by drug cartel violence, an official military report seen by AFP on Wednesday said. The blast late Tuesday near a town in Michoacan state destroyed the armored vehicle in which the troops were traveling, according to the internal document.

Sean Campbell and Topher McDougal talk about their investigation into the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

The engagement was the first known incident of a cartel shooting down a military aircraft in Mexico. The cartel’s retaliation for the attempted arrest was swift and brutal. It set fire to trucks, buses, banks, gasoline stations and businesses. The distractions worked. Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” escaped.

Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and 'Los Chapitos' faction of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel are said to have formed an alliance which could prove deadly

Exotic animals in Culiacán's Ostok Sanctuary are evacuated amid cartel violence. Staff face threats and government inaction as Sinaloa Cartel factions clash.

Sol remembers her first kill for a Mexican cartel: a kidnapping she committed with a handful of other young recruits that twisted into torture and bled into murder. She was 12 years old.

Violence continues on the U.S.-Mexico border after Mexican drug cartels have been engaged battles against the Mexican military. During an interview with Fox Business host Stuart Varney ...

A pack of veterinarians clambered over hefty metal crates on Tuesday morning, loading them one by one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.

Over 135,000 American guns were trafficked to Mexico in 2022, fuelling cartel violence. A new podcast investigates the scope and impact.

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks