Guatemalan police and soldiers are using new powers under a state of emergency to target the Barrio 18 gang in a high-crime area in the capital.

The Central American country is under a state of emergency after a massacre of police officers that calls into question the ...

The worsening gang warfare in Guatemala has piled pressure on President Bernardo Arevalo to crack down on crime and root out corrupt officials accused of links to organized crime.Interior Minister ...

Riots in which 46 guards were taken hostage were followed by coordinated street attacks in which 10 members of the National Civil Police were killed.

The killings occurred a day after gang member inmates took 46 people hostage in three prisons across the country, officials said.

Guatemalan authorities declared a state of siege Sunday in response to three coordinated prison-gang uprisings and the related killing of ...

El Salvador-style crackdown and mega-prison not the answer to organised crime and violence in his country, says interior minister ...

Streets were half-empty Monday in the capital city of Guatemala, where outrage and fear lingered during the first day of the 30-day state of emergency decreed by the government in response to the ...

Forensic investigators place evidence markers at the scene where police officers were killed in attacks reported after security forces retook control of a prison that houses gang leaders, in ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Jimmy Gonzalez was out of tears by the time he arrived at the state morgue to claim his father’s corpse. “There’s nothing more to say; my mother and I know that nobody will remember ...

Guatemala's president on Sunday declared a 30-day nationwide state of emergency to combat criminal gangs after authorities accused the groups of killing eight police officers and holding hostages at ...

Guatemala's interior minister accused gangs of killing seven police on Sunday in retaliation for the government's refusal to transfer gang leaders to a lower-security prison. The killings occurred a ...