The operation's stated objectives were capturing leaders and limiting the territorial expansion of the Red Command gang, which has increased its control over favelas in recent years.View on euronews ...

Families lined up at a morgue on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro to identify relatives killed in Brazil's deadliest ever police ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left ...

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

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

Brazil’s deadliest police raid left 132 dead in Rio de Janeiro as officers clashed with gangs using drones and explosives in ...

The violent raids have sparked intense gun battles, with gangs deploying drones against cops in retaliation. At least four ...

Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

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