Drug war News

The National Bureau of Investigation announced it would probe the murder of the boy, who politicians and rights groups said appeared to be the third teenager murdered as part of Duterte`s drug war in the past month.

More than 2,000 other people have been killed in drug-related crimes and thousands more murdered in unexplained circumstances.

Held without access to sunlight or his relatives, Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is under more restrictive captivity than any other U.S. prisoner and it is difficult to mount a defense, his court appointed lawyers said on Thursday.

The vice president of the Philippines has issued a strong rebuke of President Rodrigo Duterte`s bloody war on drugs.

More than 7,700 people have died since the campaign started eight months ago, some 2,500 in police operations.

The CDN is a splinter group from the ultra-violent Zetas drug cartel, which is behind some of the worst atrocities in Mexico`s drug war.  

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he wants to extend the war against drugs in the country, which has so far claimed around 3,500 lives, to a year, local media reported on Monday.