In interviews with community leaders, lawyers, security specialists and bereaved relatives, the Guardian pieces together how an operation targeting a criminal gang left 122 people dead last October ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of a Brazilian tactical police unit stands on a vehicle during an operation against drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro's ...

More people in a still largely conservative and religious nation are rejecting monogamy as they seek new definitions of ...

Brazilian police hit the Rio gang hard in a raid that left 119 dead, and which human rights groups called a "disaster." ...

At least 119 people were killed in Tuesday’s bloody police raids on drug traffickers in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, according to local police officials, nearly doubling the earlier toll of 60. Among ...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history killed at least 132 people, public defenders said on Wednesday, as Rio de Janeiro residents lined a street with dozens of corpses found overnight, a ...

At least 132 people, including four law enforcement officers, were killed Tuesday during a large-scale Brazilian police raid in Rio de Janeiro, according to media reports. The operation, which took ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people ...

“Operation Containment” brought 2,500 police officers, soldiers and snipers up the slopes of Rio’s Complexo da Penha and Complexo do Alemão favelas, home to roughly 110,000 people. Their target was ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people wounded.

Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and weaponized drones firing from above. Soldiers in military gear engaged in violent combat.