President Jose Napoleon Duarte freed a jailed leader of an anti-government human rights group Tuesday and described the action as a demonstration of El Salvador's move toward democracy.
The government Thursday deported 19 American religious workers who were detained by Salvadoran soldiers in a restricted military zone, the U.S.
El Salvador's guerrillas agreed Tuesday to President Jose Napoleon Duarte's offer to renew peace talks that have been stalled for 1 1/2 years, but said they want to meet first with "the people" inside the country.
Two crowded buses collided head-on about 50 miles west of San Salvador and a small truck plowed
The former chief of El Salvador's intelligence agency charged Thursday that a Nicaraguan rebel officer trained some of his country's rightist "death squads" and helped organize the 1980 assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
Defense Secretary Caspar W.
The air war in El Salvador, an object of mixed military reviews and heavy criticism from human
conviction of the gunmen who killed six Americans in El Salvador on June 19, the State Department announced Friday.
Surrounded by trenches and a small army of construction workers, the U.S.
One of the Salvadoran guerrilla leaders slain in recent raids has been positively linked with the June 19 assassination of four U.S.
A pilotless U.S. spy plane crashed early today in northeastern El Salvador, a U.S.
Leftist guerrillas launched their first major attack in the economically important western province of Sonsonate early Thursday, destroying four coffee-processing plants, burning a bank and battling a civil defense patrol and army troops for several hours.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte announced Tuesday that the government of El Salvador has arrested
The second in command of El Salvador's Communist Party was captured by Salvadoran authorities and is providing police with "ample information" on the group's terrorist activities, the National Police announced Thursday.
The second in command of El Salvador's Communist Party was captured by Salvadoran authorities and is providing police with "ample information" on the group's terrorist activities, the National Police announced today.
Guerrilla leaders announced Friday that they will take no offensive military action during the Christmas and New Year holidays and urged the government to do the same.
Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas said Sunday that 86 people died in political violence last week, eight of them civilians murdered by right-wing death squads.
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For the students among the estimated 300,000 El Salvador refugees in the Los Angeles area to return
The Salvadoran armed forces are intensifying pressure on towns and villages to form civilian militias to fight leftist guerrillas, and many Salvadorans who are being prodded into the program see it as municipal suicide.