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.
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
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.
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