A real drug war coming Its US Armed Forces vs Cartels as Pentagon reportedly plans Air Force Navy deployment

A real drug war coming? It's US Armed Forces vs Cartels as Pentagon reportedly plans Air Force, Navy deployment

The Philippine government will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into a brutal anti-narcotics campaign, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Tuesday.

Philippines will not ‘lift a finger’ to assist ICC’s drug war probe

After a spate of arrests and executions for drug offences, Ibrahim, a dealer in Saudi Arabia, is not taking any chances. "I don't deal with new clients or go to the clients myself," said the 37-year-old, using a pseudonym to protect his identity.

Saudi Arabia launches crackdown on drugs with raids, executions

A video claiming to be from Mexico's powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) circulated on social media on Friday, urging that fighting be kept between criminal groups and avoid innocents.

Mexican cartel urges that innocents be kept out of drug war in video message

The Mexican government on Monday revised upward by as much as 50 per cent the number of citizens classified as missing to more than 61,000, the vast majority of them victims of the country's grinding war with powerful drug gangs that have grown more violent.

Mexican drug war: More than 61,000 classified as missing

Hundreds of friends and family members gathered in a remote northern Mexican region on Thursday (November 7) to mourn the nine American women and children who were slain in a burst of bullets and fire earlier this week.

Mourners for slain Americans in Mexico call for justice

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said on Wednesday the government would press ahead with a controversial plan to reinstate the death penalty for drug-related offences.

Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena signs death penalty for four drugs convicts

The Philippines is poised to officially quit the International Criminal Court on Sunday, though the beleaguered tribunal has pledged to pursue its examination of possible crimes in the government's deadly drug war.

Philippines set to leave International Criminal Court over drug war inquiry

The move comes two days after Duterte announced his nation would quit the court, and triggered warnings Friday from a top tribunal official that it would harm global efforts to end impunity for the world's worst crimes.

Philippines tells UN it will quit International Criminal Court

He has twice demoted them in response to criticism of the crackdown

Philippines' Duterte says police must return to drug war

The top security official in Roraima state blamed Sao Paulo-based First Capital Command (PCC) for the violence, a local newspaper reported

Brazil: At least 33 inmates killed in prison uprising

They said children should not be exposed to shows that 'glorify crime'

Mexico lawmakers go after narco TV series, say bad for kids

Most of the 1,377 people shot by police had appeared on the lists, according to national police chief Ronald Dela Rosa

In Duterte's war on drugs, local residents help draw up hit lists

The latest Department of Health figures showed there were 841 newly diagnosed HIV cases in the Philippines

Philippines' war on drugs fuelling an HIV epidemic?

Duterte ordered their security escorts withdrawn and cancelled their firearms permits, adding that they would face sanctions

Philippine president identifies 30 officials linked to narcotics

Corrections department figures show 70 per cent of prison population jailed for drugs offences. Even petty offenders are sentenced harshly

Soaring prison population prompts Thailand to re-think 'lost' drug war

State interior minister says the shootings were probably the result of a dispute between rival groups

Gunmen kill 14 in gang-plagued Mexican state on US border

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