In this edition of InFocus, we meet with locals and authorities in Juarez City to get their views on how cartel wars have changed their hometown.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo ignores Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s phone call to plead for the lives of two death row prisoners.

Indonesia says it plans to exclude Australia from a list of 45 countries to be offered visa-free travel.

Colombia fighting drugs

Saudi Arabia beheads two foreigners and a Saudi man after sentencing them to death over drug trafficking.

Iran says it has seen no kind of cooperation from the U-N and other countries in its fight against illicit drugs. After speaking at a U-N session in Vienna, the Iranian interior minister told Press TV that sanctions are hampering the country's efforts to tackle the crisis. Our correspondent Homa Lezgee has more in the following report.

The ISIL is profiting up to USD 1 billion a year on Afghan heroin trafficking, a Russian watchdog says.

Australian and Colombian police forces smash an international drug cartel in a joint operation.

Lashing out at US and Europe’s “double standards” on drug issues, Iran’s prosecutor general has called for more coordinated efforts on an international level to fight illegal drug trafficking.

Indonesia recalls its envoy to Brasilia amid a dispute over the planned execution of a Brazilian national in Jakarta.