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

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

A witness says residents brought down body after body - some mutilated - after the massive police raid which has left at ...

Gang members in Rio de Janeiro bombed police with drones in retaliation for their deadliest raid on the city’s drug ...

After a massive police raid on a notorious drug gang, residents of a Rio de Janeiro favela spent all night collecting bodies ...

Rio de Janeiro police on Tuesday carried out their deadliest-ever raid against a major criminal faction, Comando Vermelho, or ...

Rio de Janeiro authorities launched a massive police raid against the Comando Vermelho criminal faction. The operation, named ...

Authorities said the raid was aimed at enforcing nearly 100 judicial warrants against alleged members of the Comando Vermelho ...

The Rio de Janeiro gang, the target of a bloody police operation, was born in prison almost half a century ago ...

At least 121 people were killed in Brazil in the deadliest police operation targeting organized crime and drug trafficking in ...

Rio de Janeiro: At least 64 people, including four police officers, were killed in a large-scale security operation targeting ...

A day after the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, the country is still piecing together details about the raids ...