A court in El Salvador has sentenced three former military officers for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the civil war. Late Thursday, the court imposed 60-year prison terms ...

The conflict in El Salvador lasted 12 years, from 1980 to 1992, following a civil-military coup in 1979, leaving around 75,000 civilians dead and others tortured, raped or abducted.

Guardado crafted the poems in Cenizas over a 10-year period, often traveling to El Salvador for research and to conduct interviews. The Salvadoran Civil War haunts the pages of the collection as it ...

Contreras was just one of hundreds of children who disappeared under a variety of circumstances during El Salvador's brutal, 13-year civil war, which left some 75,000 people dead and thousands ...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago today. The following story ran in April 2016 before a summit on the war began at the LBJ Presidential Library. On Sept. 3, 1968, Robert Brooks, then 21 and ...

Multiple splits Edwards, whose family followed a Quaker tradition, opposed the war from the start. Brooks, who later would be honored for his role in ending the El Salvador civil war, supported ...

Contreras was just one of hundreds of children who disappeared under a variety of circumstances during El Salvador's brutal, 13-year civil war, which left 75,000 people dead and thousands missing.

The president following Carter, passionately anti-Communist Ronald Reagan, made El Salvador’s civil war his own. When he took office in 1981, aid increased exponentially.

From 1980 to 1992, El Salvador's civil war resulted in the deaths of as many as 75,000 civilians and other atrocities. Following the Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992, the U.S. abandoned its focus ...

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

From 1980 to 1992, El Salvador’s civil war resulted in the deaths of as many as 75,000 civilians and other atrocities. Following the Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992, the U.S. abandoned its ...