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

An Argentine-built FAL rifle was found in the Comando Vermelho (CV) arsenal seized in two Rio de Janeiro favelas after this ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have been accused of decapitating a teenager and hanging his head from a tree during the deadliest ...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 people dead this week in Rio de Janeiro. The raids ...

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Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than 12,000 favelas, or ...

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive police raid targeting a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 121 people dead, ...

The death toll in a massive police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro rose to at least 121 people, authorities said Thursday. An operation launched Tuesday in two of the city’s ...

Authorities say the violence, which erupted during a crackdown on a drug gang in the city’s favelas, will not threaten ...

Operação Contenção (Containment Operation) is the name of what has been defined as the largest and bloodiest anti-narcos ...

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