Global Crime Tracker

Challenges to Disarmament and Transitional Justice

• 🔥 Iraqi Factions Resist Disarmament: Iran-aligned Iraqi armed factions including Kataib...

• State strategy revealed: Criminal gangs in Northern Kurdistan are created, protected and managed by Turkish authorities as deliberate special...

Powerful Iran-aligned factions are blocking Baghdad's push to centralize weapons under state control, insisting on guarantees against future...

Colombia’s president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to shut down the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the tribunal created under the 2016...

• Zhang Zhidong, a 2010 Peking University Spanish graduate, allegedly built the precursor supply chain from Chinese factories to Sinaloa labs after...

• 32 operations claimed across Nigeria, Niger, Mozambique, Pakistan, Somalia and DRC in one week
• West Africa Province led with 15 attacks; Central...

Fires in Bolivia’s Amazon mask a deeper struggle over land, power, and criminal economies, as detailed in the InSightCrime podcast episode “While...

Nigeria Anti-Bandit Operation

• 🔥 300 Bandits Killed: Nigerian soldiers killed more than 300 members of kidnapping and cattle bandit gangs in a...

Nigerian troops eliminated over 300 bandits in a two-day operation in Zamfara’s Gummi district targeting kidnapping and cattle-rustling gangs. The strike underscores the scale of the military campaign against entrenched insecurity in the northwest.

• Security firms SERPROSEP and Armour King won airport contracts despite links to alleged gun traffickers Jorge Enrique Alberts Ponce and Alfonso...

The Chapitos faction sustains dual pressure on Sinaloa through missing leaders and fresh extortion schemes.

• Fugitive leaders: Two of four brothers...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama faces backlash for deploying $4.9 million from state reserves to fund a controversial rapper's Tirana concert, widely...

Contaminated cough and teething syrups laced with industrial solvents like antifreeze have killed hundreds of children worldwide. Fake ingredients and...

Turkish gambling mogul Fedlan Kılıçaslan ran a Warsaw company that promoted online betting sites without a Polish license. An Interpol Red Notice followed, though he was later arrested in Spain on unrelated sexual-assault charges.

Sudan War Crimes and Libya Links

• 🔥 ICC Darfur Breakthrough: ICC Deputy Prosecutor reports new evidence directly linking Darfur atrocities to...

Dozens of abducted schoolchildren and teachers were rescued after more than 50 days, yet over 30 students remain missing from the May 15 attack in...

The ICC reports a breakthrough with strong new evidence tying Darfur atrocities in el-Geneina and el-Fashir to senior command, yet no public arrest warrants have been issued after three years of Sudan's civil war.

La Luz del Mundo is deeply infiltrated across Mexico's entire political structure, as revealed in an interview with Sharim Guzmán.

• April 13 meeting between U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Colleen A. Hoey and Honduran Attorney General Pablo Reyes focused on joint efforts against drug...

• Researchers identified four previously unknown RSF camps in Libya, directly contradicting claims that training occurs only in Sudan.
• LNA trained...