Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" ...

The Parliament of El Salvador Sunday agreed to validate a State of Emergency nationwide after 62 people died Saturday in clashes between gangs, it was announced. The measure, approved by 67 votes ...

More than 460 illegal immigrants, including those with criminal histories that include sexual assault, domestic violence, ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the first days of the Trump administration, has made hundreds of arrests of illegal ...

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile ...

For Areli, a mother of three children in Boston, the possibility of being sent back to El Salvador has been too painful to ...

Onlookers gather at the scene of a homicide in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital. Violence has driven hundreds of Salvadorans to leave each day for the United States, where they make ...

Suffering violence, witnessing violence or fearing violence should not be part of growing up. And yet far too often, for the children of El Salvador, a country with one of the world’s highest rates of ...

For years, a complex crisis of violence, gangs and crippling poverty has driven families to flee El Salvador and seek safety in the United States. By all accounts, the country is one of the world’s ...

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this June 1, 2012 file photo, El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes stands in the National ...

Phillip Euell does not hide his enthusiasm when he talks about his upcoming trip to El Salvador’s capital ... he managed to ...

Levels of violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are akin to those in the deadliest war zones around the world. The International Rescue Committee provides emergency cash relief and ...