Joseph is one of an increasing number of children who are joining gangs in Haiti, a Caribbean island nation which is ...

In late September, the United Nations Security Council voted to create a gang suppression force of about 5,500 troops that will be deployed to Haiti to fight the nation’s heavily armed criminal groups ...

21 February 2026 — A 16-year-old Haitian boy has been talking about how he was lured into working for a criminal gang but then threatened with death when he said he would not fight against the police.

A group of suspected Haitian gang members fired this week on American forces protecting the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince, a spokesman said Saturday, in an incident that highlighted the tense security ...