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

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

In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in ...

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

The police said they planned the raids for months and expected a high death toll. The city will host global leaders next week ...

AT least 64 people were killed and 81 arrested as 2,500 heavily armed police and soldiers stormed Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in ...

The public defender's office in Rio de Janeiro said 132 people were killed in Brazil's deadliest police raid, residents ...

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 ...

The death toll from military-style police raids on drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro has risen, with the state public defender's ...

The governor was certain those dead from the operation were criminals, as much of the gunfire was in a wooded area. Read more ...