The city’s streets bathed in blood as drug debts, revenge and bloodlust fuel outrageous acts of public violence. Dive inside the worst gang wars Sydney has seen in a generation, in three gripping digital mini-series produced by The Daily Telegraph. Go on the road and into the newsroom with our most dedicated senior journalists as they take you through Sydney's underworld. Delve into the gangland's biggest stories with The War and The War II: Kill or be Killed, and peel back the curtain on the city's youth postcode gangs with The War: Young Blood.
The War II: Kill or Be Killed is an explosive documentary series examining the new wave of bloodshed and brutality among Sydney’s most feared gangsters following the shocking daylight execution of the underworld’s Mr Big. Watch every episode here.
The War: Kill or be killed has revealed texts outlining how two men allegedly began plotting the assassination of a Sydney underworld figure on Christmas day. WATCH the docu-series here.
The alleged teenage assassin who shot Alen Moradian dead was in such a rush to escape after the hit he made a crucial error — and gave police a big break. WATCH The War: Kill or be killed here.
The Sydney underworld figure at the centre of a gangland murder plot hopes to leave the country as he moves to avoid the same fate as his dead mate. Watch episode four of The War II: Kill or be killed now.
A senior NSW cop has revealed how police worked with Lebanese authorities to track down and detain drug kingpin Bilal Haouchar in an exclusive interview for The War: Kill or Be Killed. Now they want him home. WATCH episode three now.
Hours after gangster Alen Moradian was assassinated in Bondi, his widow made a plea over the phone to the man now accused of ordering the execution.
A pregnant woman and a prison inmate have been arrested in connection with the shocking underworld execution of a Sydney drug dealer in a main suburban street last year. WATCH episode two of The War: Kill or be Killed here.
Explosive text messages have revealed the small thing Alen Moradian could have done to potentially avoid a hit being taken out on him. WATCH episode two of The War: Kill or be Killed.
While everyone focused on the death toll of Sydney’s bloody gangland war, cases of kidnappings and torture terrorised the city and shocked police. See the incidents in your suburb with our interactive map. Watch The War II: Kill or be Killed here.
A new underworld conflict involving bikies and middle-eastern crime families is in full swing in Sydney. And according to veteran journalist and podcast host Andrew Rule, it could spill more blood than Melbourne’s own underbelly war.
With many of Sydney’s worst gangsters dead, locked up or in exile overseas, the underworld war seemed to quieten down. Mark Morri explains why that was never the case. WATCH episode one of The War: Kill or be killed now.
The shock assassination of Sydney underworld’s Mr Big sparked killings and brutality across the city. Explosive new documentary — The War: Kill or be killed — reveals fresh details behind the feared gangster’s execution. WATCH NOW
When a young drug runner was brutally gunned down in a quiet suburban street, an innocent bystander was shot in the head. Here’s how he somehow survived.
Eleven teenagers murdered in four years against a backdrop of ‘drill rap’ performers who use lyrics to brag openly about killings and muggings. Look inside Sydney’s ‘postcode gangs’ with The War: Young Blood. WATCH HERE
Seventeen murders in two years. It is the worst gang war Sydney has seen in a generation. Watch every episode of The Daily Telegraph’s groundbreaking video series and delve into the tit-for-tat gangland killings that exploded into a family blood feud between the Hamzys and Alameddines.
One of the most senior members of the Hamzy family is back on the streets in a move that could reignite Sydney’s gang wars. Police tried to block his release for his own safety but now he’s out – and in the eyes of the underworld, he’s in serious danger.
Sydney’s gangland war claimed more than a dozen lives while ‘Little Crazy’ Hamzy sat in a jail cell. Here’s what started the bloody feud.
It’s the ongoing bloody gangland crime rocking Sydney. Now in an exclusive tell-all, The Daily Telegraph’s crime reporting duo Mark Morri and Josh Hanrahan reveal why it’s not over yet. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.
A $400,000 supercar has been firebombed at Sydney Olympic Park in a possible underworld revenge attack.
Sydney’s most notorious gang members can no longer escape to Queensland to avoid strict orders placed on them by NSW Police, with the state now able to replicate the restrictions. Here’s how.
The alleged leader of the Alameddine crime clan is known as “The King” in Lebanon, where he has been joined in recent weeks by some of the group’s highest-profile associates. WATCH THE LATEST EPISODE OF THE WAR HERE.
A man already charged for his alleged involvement in the killing of gang boss Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad has now been charged over his alleged role in the slaying of Ahmad’s nephew.
Raptor Squad officers have charged Comanchero boss Tarek Zahed’s sister after conducting a firearms prohibition order raid on her home.
Mohammed Yaghi lived a crime-free life for two decades, but the lure of hundreds of thousands of dollars to be one of the Italian mafia’s middle men Down Under proved irresistible.
Underworld sources have spoken out after the “sickening” execution of a man in front of his son in Sydney’s southwest. Find out what they said.
Thursday’s gym shooting was horrific, but it was also the first murder with links to organised crime on Sydney’s streets in more than six months, writes Josh Hanrahan.
One of Sydney’s infamous Hamzy clan with a massive contract on his life has been denied parole for his own protection and to prevent a potential new round of shootings in the city’s deadly gangland war.
Masood Zakaria was on the run with a security detail of up to 10 bodyguards — but it wasn’t enough to save him when Turkish police came knocking at midnight. Here’s how raid unfolded.
Captured fugitive Masood Zakaria is facing months in a Turkish jail while authorities decide how to get him back to Australia.
Former fugitive Mark Horne will front a Sydney court on Wednesday after his dramatic arrest in the hull of a yacht bound for Asia.
Masood Zakaria, 27, was captured in Bodrum over the weekend by Turkish authorities working on information from the Australian Federal Police who have painstakingly been searching for him for 14 months.
John Ray Bayssari has engaged two high-profile criminal lawyers, just shy of 12 months after he was arrested for brawling with rival Hamzy gang members in full view of holiday-makers.
Police allege Masood Zakaria’s dad concealed cash and gemstones on behalf of his criminal son, who fled overseas in late 2021 after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Charges have been dropped against a man police alleged was an accessory to the murder of underworld boss Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad.
From Mount Druitt and Merrylands, to Doonside and Parramatta, there has been increasing violence from youth gangs representing their suburbs. Here’s a breakdown of the gangs and why they have beef with each other.
Bikie kingpin Mark Buddle, who is behind bars in Australia, is expecting a child with his Cyprus-based wife.
Some of the biggest names in Sydney’s underworld have escaped the Harbour City for a holiday that conveniently puts them out of cops’ reach.
A former Sydney bikie boss now living overseas is considered the new Supreme Commander of the all-powerful Comanchero club, taking the reins from close associate Mark Buddle.
Jamal Salameh, 29, was arrested at Canterbury on Wednesday morning after a seven-month investigation by NSW Police.
An aspiring Sydney rapper who sings about assassinations and drive-by shootings is the same man NSW Police believe was involved in killing a young drug dealer back in 2016.
Police believe the execution of gangster Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad this year could be linked to a feud that saw his brother brutally gunned down six years ago.
A 28-year-old man has pleaded guilty to concealing information about the postcode war-related death of 18-year-old Alex Ioane at a house party in 2019.
The wave of knife crime that’s had deadly consequences in Sydney’s postcode wars has spread to country NSW. But it’s the disgusting ways parents are finding out their child has died that is causing outrage.
Opposition leader Chris Minns is pushing for beefed up knife laws following 11 fatal stabbings in four years in NSW. Find out what jail time and fines could apply.
Primary schoolchildren are being recruited into Sydney postcode gangs as NSW Police battle to control the number of young people carrying knives – and using them – to fuel rising conflicts across the city. WATCH EPISODE ONE OF THE WAR: YOUNG BLOOD
There was no knock at the door by police. No sympathetic phone call. The message that tore a mum’s world apart came from a stranger on Facebook. “Are you Kane’s mum? Kane’s dead”.
Taylor Piliae is still getting over the Sydney Royal Easter Show stabbing death of her partner Uati Faletolu. Now, she must figure out how to tell her newborn son his dad died a senseless death in Sydney’s postcode gangs war.
A reformed Sydney bikie has lifted the lid on how he joined a gang as a teenager and what it was that pushed him to seek a life on the streets. WATCH EPISODE 2 OF THE WAR: YOUNG BLOOD HERE
A group of six junior rugby league players got off the train in Sydney and within seconds were surrounded by a postcode gang of 15 teenagers – one carrying a knife. This is what unfolded.
Both men allegedly involved in one of Sydney’s attempted Hamzy-Alameddine underworld assassinations have links to a postcode street gang, it can be revealed. But it was what unfolded during the attempted hit that shocked the city.
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