Seventy soldiers from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of th

The United Nations says that the U.S. has given notice that it is halting funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting gangs trying to seize full control of the country’s capital.

On Tuesday, 70 soldiers, all aviation specialists, arrived in Port-au-Prince to join the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission. El Salvador has offered to assist with medical and casualty evacuations as part of the mission,

Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely untouched by criminals