The Sicilian Mafia was less active during the era of Fascist Italy and it was fought by Benito Mussolini's government. In June 1924, Mussolini instructed...

The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa -], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is...

retains some influence. The Sicilian Mafia became infamous for aggressive assaults on Italian law enforcement officials during the reign of Salvatore Riina...

the fascist government combated organised crime and the Sicilian Mafia. Italian fascism was copied by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, the Russian Fascist Organization...

investigate Mafia links within the Fascist regime and was removed from his position in 1929, when the Fascist regime declared that the threat of the Mafia had...

a Sicilian Mafia boss of Villalba in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses...

campaigns against Sicilian Mafia in the second half of the 1920s. Mori described himself as a Fascist, and wrote strongly of his admiration of the effectiveness...

Originally a supporter of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime, De Mauro eventually became a journalist with the left-leaning newspaper L'Ora in Palermo. He...

had a prominent role in the events that led up to the fall of the fascist regime. He organised the arrest of Mussolini. The new Prime Minister, Pietro...

The War of the Sicilian Vespers, also shortened to the War of the Vespers, was a conflict waged by several medieval European kingdoms over control of...