The World Today: February & March 2018: Escape for daughters of the mafia

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Funeral of Lea Garofalo, 35, murdered after giving evidence against her mafia family

Helen Fitzwilliam outlines a protection programme to rescue women and children of the ’Ndrangheta, a mafia clan that kills those who dare to betray it

Villagers in San Luca in the southern Calabrian heartland of the ’Ndrangheta

Journalist and author Alex Perry explains the financial power the secretive Calabrian mafia is so keen to hide

Members of the US Fourth Squadron, Second Cavalry Regiment, drive a Stryker vehicle through the Kandahar desert

But, as Micah Zenko points out, it is guilty of double standards

A Serbian nun visits an Orthodox monastary in Istok, northern Kosovo

Andrea Garaiova sees an appetite for stabilization after years of failed state-building

The internet and multinationals threaten our world order, argues Mark Lyall Grant

A demonstrator in Damascus holds portraits of Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Moscow’s air war in Syria

Mary Dejevsky looks at what Russia hopes to gain from its support of Assad

In January anti-mafia police arrested 170 people as part of a crackdown on fraud and extortion rackets extending from southern Italy to Germany. The criminal organization involved was the ’Ndrangheta, the secretive Calabrian mob which has risen to become one of the world’s richest mafias, with tentacles stretching over five continents.