Captured fugitive Masood Zakaria may languish in Turkish jail for months
Captured fugitive Masood Zakaria is facing months in a Turkish jail while authorities decide how to get him back to Australia.
The War
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.
Wanted fugitive Mark Horne extradited to NSW
Former fugitive Mark Horne will front a Sydney court on Wednesday after his dramatic arrest in the hull of a yacht bound for Asia.
NSW’s most wanted man arrested in Turkey
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.
Alameddine associate’s next move in NSW airport brawl case
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.
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Raptor Squad stops party for gang at nightclub
The party’s over for a planned 30th birthday do for Comanchero bikies and their mates from the Alameddine crime family after Raptor Squad stepped in.
Reformed bikie says fatherhood changed him
Former Nomad Moudi Tajjour says his only priority now is to ensure his young son never joins a gang. Read how he became NSW’s youngest bikie — and why he got out.
Episode 4: Inside ‘Brownie’ Ahmad’s execution
Gangland boss ‘Brownie’ Ahmad is executed. Alameddine heavyweight Masood Zakaria is tipped off about an arrest and flees. NSW Police scramble to stem the bloodshed. Watch the final episode of The Daily Telegraph’s four-part documentary diving into the deadly depths of Sydney’s gang war.
Sydney’s gangsters skip town as peers assassinated or jailed
Senior underworld figures are citing hits on “big time players” and the settling of old scores as reasons to leave the city – as well as several major breakthroughs for police.
Man charged over gangland hit on ‘Brownie’ Ahmad
A man has been charged over his alleged involvement in the murder of infamous underworld boss Mahmoud “Brownie” Ahmad, who was shot dead in April.
Murdered bikie’s ugly run-in with Comanchero’s mum revealed
Yusuf Nazlioglu, a bikie once accused of murdering a Comanchero boss, was involved in a confrontation with his accused hit’s mum weeks before winding up dead.
Timeline: Mick Hawi murder to Yusuf Nazlioglu hit
The murder of Mick Hawi in 2018 sent shockwaves through the bikie scene, and set off a chain of events that continues to this day. Here are the players in Sydney’s latest hit.
‘He’s a new man’: Wife’s grief as ex-Lone Wolf bikie killed
The widow of slain Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu was seen “wailing” in the aftermath of his shooting, as police probe what they believe was a targeted attack.
Youngest Zahed brother facing ‘drug money’ charges
Abdul Zahed faced Burwood court on Tuesday, almost two months after his brothers were targeted in a brazen underworld shooting at an Auburn gym.
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