With many of Sydney’s worst gangsters dead, locked up or in exile overseas, the city’s underworld war appeared to quieten down ... until the biggest hit of them all.

Notorious crime boss Alen Moradian became the 18th victim of the worst gang war in a generation when he was gunned down in a brazen daylight ambush.

The shock assassination sparked a new struggle for power on Sydney streets as rival gangs spilt blood over turf, cash and drugs.

Public shootings, Mexican cartel-style kidnappings and horrific acts of torture marked a new level of violence and brutality which stunned even the most hardened detectives.

And innocent people were caught in the crossfire.

This sequel to The Daily Telegraph’s award-winning documentaries The War and The War: Young blood uncovers never-before-heard details about the killings and the conflicts fuelling the chaos.

Go inside the Telegraph’s newsroom and follow our journalists as they reveal details so fresh, they will even come as a shock to the underworld.

Between 2020 and 2021, there had been 16 organised crime murders on Sydney’s streets. None of them were as big as the alleged assassination of Alen Moradian. Take a deeper dive than ever before into how a feared gangster like Moradian wound up dead. It is an important reminder that while you should keep your enemies close, sometimes you need to keep your friends closer.

Things on the streets of Sydney go to a worrying new level, with a massive surge in kidnappings and shootings. Everyone from TikTok stars to young women are being pulled from their homes in the middle of the night, and subjected to horrific acts of torture. The death of Alen Moradian creates a power struggle in the underworld, with some of the biggest players calling the shots from the other side of the world. It puts NSW Police on the backfoot, and in a desperate bid to regain control of the streets.

Bilal Haouchar is one of the most feared men on Sydney’s streets... yet he lives half a world away in Lebanon. It becomes very evident why some people even refuse to speak his name when the “Mr Big” begins to put his criminal empire into overdrive in 2023. In doing so, the future of The Commission - the most feared drug cartel in Australia - is called into question.

A man who is wronged by the underworld helps police to bring down some of the biggest names in the business. As he does so tensions explode, with multiple attempted hits on the streets of Sydney - one just a few blocks from the Prime Minister’s house. Overseas major players find out they are no longer safe, with sweeping arrests of crooks who many thought were untouchable.