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

Families in Rio de Janeiro have begun burying victims of the city’s deadliest gang raid. Residents in the Vila Cruzeiro ...

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

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

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

The police operation was one of the most violent in Brazil's recent history, with human rights organizations calling for ...

The police operation was one of the most violent in Brazil's recent history, with human rights organizations calling for ...

Rio has been the scene of lethal police raids for decades. In March 2005, some 29 people were killed in Rio’s Baixada ...

The raid is already being called the most lethal police action in the history of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s largest cities, police operations are carried out in areas with a strong ...

At least 64 people have reportedly been killed in Rio de Janeiro’s worst-ever day of violence as more than 2,500 officers and ...

Several civil society groups and public security experts criticized the heavy casualties of the military-style raid.