Human Rights Watch says thousands of children have been caught up in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's "war on gangs," which included last month's transfer of these alleged gang members to a ...

From the moment he arrived in El Salvador to work with Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, a program for underprivileged children, "Padre Ron," now archbishop-elect of New York, seemed to fit in, recalls a ...

Two children drowned in eastern El Salvador after being swept away in a rain-swollen gully on their way home from school. El Salvador’s Civil Defense agency said a third child was rescued and taken to ...

SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) — Tears welled in Alex's eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by ...

A child, victim of the earthquake, receives a plate of food while others wait in line on February 15, 2001, in Verapaz, El Salvador. [Getty Images] More than 1,000 minors have been convicted of crimes ...

Mercedarian Sr. Silvia Flores darted across a street, setting her sight on her target: a woman selling fruit close to a busy street in El Salvador's crowded and bustling capital. But it wasn't fruit ...

While preparing to report on a Milwaukee woman who had become a symbol of immigrants forced to leave the U.S., I wondered whether the woman I had come to know as optimistic and resilient would still ...

Thousands of poverty-stricken children in El Salvador have suffered arbitrary detention, torture and other abuse as part of President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs,” Human Rights Watch said in a report ...

SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) — Tears welled in Alex’s eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by ...