The toll was reported by the local police chief, Herbie Guamani, and a police source said the gunfight involved opposing factions of a gang called Los Tigerones, one of the most powerful in this formerly peaceful country.

The US has designated the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the violent MS-13 organization and six major Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

Canadian police were forced to cancel a meeting on learning about gang violence over reported threats of violence against the meeting.

Gang violence, hunger, and political instability threaten Haiti's survival as a state as the UN calls for urgent international security and peacekeeping interventions.

The victims, ranging from suspected rival gang members to schoolgirls, were brutally attacked with machetes and baseball bats.

This surge a adds to the nearly 800,000 Haitians already internally displaced by gang violence across the country.

Young men fear forced cartel recruitment as rising violence pushes the amount of murders in Sinaloa above 1,000 for the first time since 2019.

The victims were suspected of involvement in voodoo and accused by a gang leader of poisoning his child, with the suspects taken to a "training center" where many were dismembered or burned after being killed.

The Edge at Lowry gained notoriety back in August when Trump claimed it had been taken over by the Venezuelan-born gang

The victim's father fatally shot one of his son's attackers during the confrontation outside their family home.

The victims include a man they mistakenly killed believing he was a rival gang member.

The airport was closed following a series of incidents in November when commercial aircrafts came under gunfire from gangs near the airport

Nearly 20 of the roughly 400 Kenyan police officers have reportedly resigned from the U.N.-backed mission in Haiti, citing unfulfilled pay and inadequate resources amid worsening gang violence. Kenyan authorities deny the claims

More than 71,000 Haitians have been deported from the neighboring country under a strict immigration policy that seeks to expel up to 10,000 people every week

Over 1.5 million children are out of school as gangs continue to recruit minors and hunger worsens in the country

The group has been linked to criminal activities in major U.S. cities, including sex trafficking and drug smuggling

The Gateway Hotel must be empty by 10 a.m. Thursday

Local authorities dismissed the claims that circulated during the weekend, citing no credible evidence of their arrival.

Identified as the leader of "Los Killers," the man is being held at a federal detention facility near Buffalo pending an immigration hearing

The gangs control 80 percent of the Caribbean country's main roads and are accused of numerous murders, rapes, looting and kidnapping for ransom.

William O'Neill, an expert for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation, said Thursday the number of police officers required last year was between 1,000 and 2,000, adding that the number has more than doubled now.

It is unclear how gangs who control large portions of the capital will be dealt with and what role will they play later

President Noboa declared an "internal armed conflict" on Tuesday, but the country has been on a slippery slope for years; this is how we got here

Daniel Noboa identified several groups as "terrorist organizations and non-state belligerent actors"

"This is so you know you don't mess around with the gangs," said one of the people in the studio

International aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it was suspending work at a medical center in the Haitian capital after an armed group pulled a critically ill patient from an ambulance and shot him dead in the street.

Center for Human Rights Analysis and Research said they will reduce their activities for a couple of months due to threats.

A Kenyan-led multinational force will hopefully help bring some semblance of stability to Haiti, where gang violence has escalated into a form of "urban guerrilla" warfare, the Caribbean country's police chief tells AFP. The UN Security Council gave the green light this month for the deployment of a thousand-strong support force led by Kenyan police, after a year of repeated calls for help from Haiti.

A UN-backed force is finally being sent to try and restore calm to Haiti, but experts fear it may have no more success than previous foreign interventions in an impoverished nation hit by crisis after crisis.

The deployment will take place after nine months and will last a year.