Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Security officers stand guard at the entrance to the Chalatenango Judicial Center as a public hearing is held of former military ...

A former defense minister and two colonels went on trial in El Salvador Tuesday for the killings of four Dutch journalists 43 years ago, an NGO assisting the victims' families said. Koos Koster, Jan ...

A court in El Salvador found three retired senior army officers guilty Tuesday of the killing of four Dutch reporters in 1982 during the country's civil war, a lawyer for families of the victims said.

President Nayib Bukele says that his new education minister, a military officer, will restore discipline to schools where gangs once recruited. A school workers’ union called the appointment “absurd.” ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – U.S. and Central American military leaders gathered in El Salvador May 21 to reaffirm their shared commitment to regional security and renew partner-nation engagement and ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Mexican drug cartels are trying to buy high-powered weapons from military and police forces in Central America, according to El Salvador's defense minister, Gen. David ...

Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Hans ter Laag and Joop Willemsen were killed in 1982 while filming a documentary during El Salvador's civil war - Copyright AFP/File SAUL ...