Bodies piled up in poor neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday as police launched their biggest ever raids on the city's ...

The Rio de Janeiro public defender's office on Wednesday said a total of 132 people died in the bloodiest police raid against drug gangs in the Brazilian city's history, as grieving residents laid out ...

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

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

Authorities confiscated more than $2 million worth of weapons during a recent anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro, the deadliest in Brazil's history, the state government said Saturday.The Rio de Janeiro ...

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

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

The governor of Rio said the official death toll from Tuesday's anti-drug operation, the deadliest in history, remained at ...

BRAZILIAN police have been accused of decapitating a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree like a trophy in a ...

Eighteen people have been arrested and a total of 268kg of illicit drugs were seized following a major multi-jurisdictional ...