Mexico authorities kill 13 in face-off in cartel-plagued State

Authorities in Mexico’s Pacific Sinaloa State were attacked by an armed group after midday on Monday (November 3, 2025), with the incident leaving 13 of the attackers dead, Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said.

Garcia Harfuch added that four people had been detained and that authorities had freed nine people who had been kidnapped. The State has faced a wave of violence in the past year between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel and as authorities try to wrest back control of the area.