Having watched the slaughter in El Salvador first hand during the early 1980s, having lost many friends and acquaintances to the butchers there--among them nuns, priests and an archbishop who will ...

It was the soldiers' first taste of combat in Iraq. But for those who had fought in El Salvador's fierce civil war as teenagers two decades earlier, the skirmish near Diwaniyah last September felt ...

El Salvador's willingness to keep sending troops to Iraq underscores the unusually strong political and economic bonds, as well as the unique military relationship, forged in the past two decades ...

The El Salvador case study contrasts with the soldier-heavy example of Vietnam and the current buildup in Iraq. In El Salvador, the U.S. sent 55 Green Berets to aid the Salvadoran military in its ...

For Iraq, the El Salvador option -- again Plan B sounds awfully familiar, and not just because we've lived through it before. By Tim Grieve. Published March 12, 2007 3:28PM (EDT) -- ...

Over 200 migrants who were sent to a Salvadoran prison under accusations they were gang members are the responsibility of the ...

El Salvador's president, Tony Saca, says he may extend his country's mission to Iraq beyond the initially scheduled six-month tour.

A veteran who served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps and two tours in Iraq is facing imminent deportation to El Salvador -- a country he left when he was 3 years old -- over felony convictions ...

SAN JUAN OPICO, El Salvador — The insurgents lay in a patch of tall grass as they waited for the three Humvees and a 5-ton supply truck to approach. Then came two explosions, followed by intense ...

SAN SALVADOR — President Tony Saca said Saturday that his nation would send a fresh contingent of troops to Iraq in August, but fewer than the 380 now there. El Salvador is the only Latin ...