The Latest Breaking News from Alameddine

A mystery man was behaving frantically and making phone calls when a major crime figure was gunned down outside a restaurant, a jury has heard.

A man was gunned down as part of a long-running feud between two rival criminal gangs that involves a number of public place shootings, a murder trial was told.

The Australian Federal Police are seeking to extradite the alleged senior member of the Alameddine crime network in Sydney over allegations including conspire to murder, directing a criminal group, drug supply and proceeds of crime.

An alleged associate of the Alameddine criminal network is accused of roles in planned hits on two high-ranking members of the Hamze family in as many months in Sydney, a court hears.

A number of alleged members of Sydney's Alameddine crime network are denied bail after being arrested in sweeping gangland raids on Tuesday.

MORNING BRIEFING: Police are searching for a firearm they suspect was used to injure a man at a Roselands unit block last night

Police say mobile phones allegedly used to sell drugs on Sydney streets are behind several gangland murders linked to warring crime families.

Police say they had laid almost 300 charges during a 48-hour crackdown on people allegedly linked to the city's gang war.