Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias El Fito, escaped from jail in Ecuador more than a year ago and an international hunt for the ...

As the country's crime rates soar, incumbent Daniel Noboa looks to foreign military aid to stabilize the nation before April ...

Five inmates were found dead Friday at Ecuador's biggest prison, the SNAI prison agency said, a day after fatal clashes between rival gangs erupted in the same port city of Guayaquil.

Gang infighting has left nearly two dozen people dead in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city. 14 people were arrested in the aftermath of the Thursday skirmish.

Ecuador's president announced on Friday an amnesty for security forces fighting drug cartels in the port city of Guayaquil, ...

Gun battles broke out across the northern neighborhood of Nueva Prosperina on Thursday afternoon between members of criminal ...

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has granted preemptive pardons for police and military personnel responding to an armed ...

A violent clash between gang factions in Ecuador's Guayaquil resulted in nearly two dozen fatalities. The conflict erupted as ...

The government of President Daniel Noboa, who is running for reelection in an April run-off, has intensified security ...

Infighting between factions of a gang vying for control over territory in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil left nearly two ...

QUITO (Reuters) - Twenty two people were killed in gun battles in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil on Thursday, in what police said was a potential dispute between factions of the Los Tiguerones ...