WASHINGTON: A new US-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as ‘El Mencho,’ a US defense official told Reuters. The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple US government agencies, was formally launched last month with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members on both sides of the US-Mexico border, US officials said.

A Mexican federal official says the Mexican army has killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in a military operation.

The Mexican army decapitating Mexico's most powerful cartel and gave the government its biggest prize yet to show the Trump administration for its efforts.