Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a massive operation in two favelas, resulting in 121 deaths, including four officers.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hundreds of protesters on Friday marched through one of the favelas targeted in Rio de Janeiro's most ...

This week, we hold the line on more military strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, mull the conviction of a Bolivian drug ...

Protesters marched in Vila Cruzeiro, where days earlier residents laid out dozens of bodies of people killed by police.

The operation's stated objectives were capturing leaders and limiting the territorial expansion of the Red Command gang, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the ...

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people ...

Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in harrowing scenes Wednesday after Brazil's bloodiest police ...

Rio de Janeiro authorities said on Friday they had identified most of those killed in the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, as protesters denounced the high number of casualties in the ...

In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation.

The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and most powerful criminal organizations, which dominates the drug trade in several cities ...