In the countryside of central and southern Peru where the rebels were strongest, the Shining Path waged an assassination campaign against government officials, the heads of state-owned farming ...

Peruvian regular forces gunned down between 10 and 15 members of the Shining Path rebel group during an “Operation Patriot” deployment in which the rebels' leader Víctor Quispe Palomino ...

There are no roads, electricity or phones. The hills are still patrolled by Shining Path rebels, and drug traffickers flaunt the state's absence. At the edge of a shallow pit, Casa provides ...

Recently the Shining Path has sprung back from relative obscurity to launch its most deadly attacks in more than a decade. Over the past year, rebels have killed some 25 soldiers and police officers ...

An estimated 70,000 died in the conflicts as local Maoist rebels called the Shining Path, fought against soldiers and paramilitary allies in the hills of the Andes. A team of forensic ...

Jailed leaders of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group in Peru have ended a three-day ... new trials and prison transfers for jailed rebels. Guzman and Iparraguirre have been in prison since 1992 ...

Guzman wants the government to adopt an "amnesty" program that would excuse atrocities committed during the conflict by Peru's army and the rebels. His lawyers, who insist the Shining Path was ...

The U.S. government sanctioned three leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement Tuesday, saying they “actively engaged in terrorism” as part of their mission to overthrow the Peruvian ...

Defeating fanatical Shining Path rebels took a little longer but also won him broad-based support. His presidency, however, collapsed just as dramatically. After briefly shutting down Congress and ...