Fear and violence permeate Culiacán, Sinaloa, and its surrounding area in northwestern Mexico. The sun-seared state capital, with a population of a little more than one million, is also known as the ...

Police officer pours water on the burnt wreckage of a truck a day after cartel gunmen clashed with federal forces in Culiacan By David Alire Garcia and Daina Beth Solomon CULIACAN, Mexico/MEXICO CITY ...

A member of the National Guard stands watch near a body in Culiacán, Mexico, on Sept. 21. (Eduardo Verdugo / Associated Press) In this city built from the spoils of Mexico's richest drug-trafficking ...

A bloody year-long war for control of the world's most powerful drug cartel has killed 1,700 people in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

MEXICO CITY — Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and ...

The state of Sinaloa, Mexico, is being hit with a wave of violence, officials say, following the arrest of the son of jailed drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán in the days leading up to ...

CULIACAN, Mexico — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the United States on Thursday for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least ...

CULIACÁN, Mexico (AP) — Residents of the northern Mexico city of Culiacan tried to get back to their routines Tuesday, five days after gunmen from the Sinaloa drug cartel sowed ...

Mexican authorities said 20 dead bodies, including five decapitated corpses, were discovered in the cartel-plagued city of Culiacan on Monday. Four decapitated corpses were found hanging from a ...

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — A dozen or so charred vehicles sit in a government impound lot outside this northwestern city including a patrol car, a military pickup and a tractor-trailer, casualties of a ...

CULIACAN, Mexico/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Stunned residents of the Mexican city of Culiacan gingerly ventured back into the streets on Friday as police cleared away shell casings and scorched cars from ...