A jury has been seated in the trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital.
The number of sexual abuse cases being treated at a clinic in Haiti’s capital has tripled in the past four years as gang violence surges across the troubled Caribbean country.
A member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council has announced that a majority of the panel has voted to fire the country’s embattled Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the country’s political chaos deepens.
An Associated Press videographer in Haiti was filming a group of tactical police patrolling the capital on Monday when gang members attacked.
Heavily armed gangs have attacked Haiti’s central region, killing men, women and children and setting fire to homes.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing federal disaster funds and using the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Melissa has begun affecting the southeastern Bahamas.
The U.N. Security Council has voted to authorize a much larger, 5,550-member international force with expanded powers to help stop escalating gang violence in Haiti.
A powerful gang coalition that ravaged several communities in Haiti's capital has abruptly announced it is safe for people to return.
A Federal Aviation Administration ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti’s capital has been extended to March 7, 2026.
The United States and Panama are urging the U.N. Security Council to authorize a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help stop the escalating violence.
Police in Haiti say they have regained control of a critical telecommunications hub that heavily armed gangs had seized last week, briefly disrupting air traffic and internet connections.
Federal prosecutors in the nation’s capital will no longer bring felony charges against people for possessing rifles or shotguns in the District of Columbia.
A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a U.S. citizen for conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and fund gang activities.
A wealthy businessman has become president of Haiti's transitional presidential council tasked with restoring order in the troubled country as a top gang leader underscored the challenges facing the nation by vowing to overthrow the government.
Haiti's National Police says three officers and an informant have been killed and a fourth officer is missing in the country’s central region where gang violence has surged.
Haitians with HIV are defying stigma as they publicly denounce USAID cuts implemented by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump that has led to a dwindling of life-saving medication.
The Organization of American States is coming under pressure to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and personnel.
Dozens of protesters are marching up the hills of Haiti’s capital to demand an end to persistent gang violence as they call on the country’s prime minister and transitional presidential council to resign.
The Trump administration has told Congress that it intends to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
Authorities say at least three Haitian soldiers were killed in an apparent gang ambush in a town on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince on Sunday.
Thousands of protesters in Haiti have clashed with police as they denounce a surge in gang violence and demand that the government keep them safe.
A former mayor of a town in Haiti is set to go on trial after authorities say he lied on his visa application about committing rights abuses in his country.
The United States has extended its ban on flights to Haiti’s capital until Sept. 8 because of escalating gang violence.
Haitian police officers are demanding better protection and treatment a day after gunmen killed a Kenyan police officer who was part of a U.N.-backed mission tasked with fighting gangs in the troubled Caribbean country.
Kenyan authorities say one of their officers sent to Haiti to help rein in violent gangs was killed in an operation in the countryside.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says he will request that the United Nations assumes funding for the structural and logistical expenses of a multinational force in Haiti that is struggling to fight violent gangs.
Amnesty International has released a report that details the impact gang violence has had on children across Haiti and called for immediate action.
Dominican officials have been deporting at least 10,000 Haitian immigrants a week under a harsh new policy widely criticized by civil organizations.
The United Nations says that the U.S. has given notice that it is halting some funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting gangs trying to seize full control of the country’s capital.
The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council has said that the Trump administration’s decisions to freeze aid programs, deport migrants and block refugees will be “catastrophic” for Haiti.
The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people.
A coastal community in Haiti’s capital is reeling days after a gang leader was accused of killing more than 100 people to avenge his son’s death.
A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti’s capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son's death.
An armored vehicle carrying Kenyan police rumbles through Haiti’s capital with a shattered window that a high-caliber bullet failed to penetrate, a permanent sign of the violence confronting the United Nations-backed force almost daily in Port-au-Prince.
When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to quell gang violence, hopes were high.
Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping mission.
Togetherness, culture and a path forward were the goals of the 2024 Haitian Culture Festival on the West Side after false claims ran rampant during the election season.
The last words Michelle Reed heard from her 6-year-old adopted son in early November were: “Mom, come get me.”.
The Federal Aviation Administration is prohibiting U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot two planes.
Haiti’s international airport was shut down after gangs opened fire at a commercial flight landing in Port-Au-Prince.
Gangs in Haiti have opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter, forcing it to land in Port-au-Prince in the latest attack in the country's capital as violence surges once again.
The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to expand the arms embargo in Haiti to all types of weapons and ammunition, expressing grave concern at the extremely high levels of gang violence and criminal activities in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
The U.N.'s migration agency says nearly 6,300 people have fled their homes in the aftermath of an attack in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members that killed at least 70 people.
The Dominican Republic says it will start massive deportations of Haitians living illegally in the country and expel up to 10,000 of them a week.
The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force trying to tackle gang violence in Haiti.
A strange moment in American politics surfaced at the U.N. General Assembly, brought up by a top Haitian official.
The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council says he supports a U.N. peacekeeping mission to fight gang violence still overwhelming authorities.
The president of the Dominican Republic has warned that his administration would take “drastic measures” to protect the country if a U.N.-backed mission in neighboring Haiti targeting gang violence fails.
Esai Reed, at only 6 years old, has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.
As world leaders discuss the future of efforts to wrangle the gangs strangling Haiti, Haitians are expressing hopelessness over an international response to the tide of violence.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his country will send two dozen soldiers and police officers to Haiti this week to boost a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight violent gangs.
Thousands of young Haitians are jumping at the chance to become soldiers as widespread gang violence creates rare job opportunities in a deeply impoverished country where work is scarce.
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the former president of Haiti, Michel Joseph Martelly, following accusations that he abused his influence to facilitate drug trafficking into the U.S. and sponsored gangs that have contributed to instability in the Caribbean country.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has announced $60 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti during a trip to the troubled Caribbean country.
U.S. officials have asked Haiti’s prime minister to prioritize the establishment of an electoral council as the country strives to rebuild its government amid rampant gang violence.
The leader of a notoriously violent gang in Haiti linked to the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
The beleaguered director of Haiti’s National Police has been ousted following months of criticism that he wasn’t doing enough to protect officers under assault by gangs.
Haiti’s newly selected Prime Minister Garry Conille was discharged from a hospital after spending a night in treatment for an undisclosed condition.
U.N. development specialist Garry Conille has been named Haiti’s new prime minister nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council had chosen someone else for the position.
A spokesperson for the families of a young missionary couple from the U.S. says their bodies are going to be transported to Missouri this week.
Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were once persecuted.
A Haitian human rights group has released a new report that details the horrific violence unleashed this year by gangs who kill, rape and maim with impunity amid a political vacuum.
The U.S. assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs says the creation of a transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leaders is imminent.
Heavy gunfire erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital as police battled gang members near the National Palace for several hours.
Florida residents are raising concerns about family and friends in Haiti amid ongoing violence in the Caribbean island nation.
Members of a transitional presidential council who will be responsible for selecting a new prime minister for Haiti have issued their first official statement.
Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies near the country’s largest public hospital.
Gangs have attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas.
Haiti’s future is being planned on two tracks — one involving traditional political power, the other focused on the power of gangs.
The U.S. military has flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel.
It’s easy to blame the latest spasm of violence in Haiti on longstanding poverty, the legacy of colonialism, and European and U.S. interference with the West’s first free Black republic.
Police and palace guards are working to retake some streets in Haiti's capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations.
Scores of foreigners are stranded in Haiti, unable to leave the country under siege by violent gangs that have shuttered its international airports, trapping citizens from the United States, Canada and beyond.
When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry filled the void left by the assassination of the country’s president in 2021, he did so over the protest of wide segments of the population but with the full-throated support of the Biden administration.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered his country's main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days.
Haiti’s government has declared a state of emergency and nighttime curfew in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence over the weekend saw armed gang members storm the country’s two biggest prisons.
Police in Haiti are urgently appealing for help as they struggle to hold back gangs trying to storm the country’s main prison in a major escalation of violence sweeping the troubled Caribbean nation.
Heavy gunfire has paralyzed Haiti’s capital and at least four police officers have been killed as a powerful gang leader announced he will try to capture the country’s police chief and government ministers.
Caribbean leaders have met with embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence.
An attorney for Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s widow, who was indicted in his assassination, says he believes the accusations against her are politically motivated.
A judge who investigated the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has indicted some 50 suspects in the case.
A judge in Haiti responsible for investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles.
Haiti’s government has announced that it is working on an official agreement with Kenyan officials to secure the long-awaited deployment of a police force from the east African country.
The owners of a Haitian food truck are suing a small town in Virginia over allegations that a town council member cut the food truck's water line and screamed, ‘Go back to your own country.
A Haitian judge investigating the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse issued an arrest warrant for his wife late last year for failing to meet with him so he could interrogate her about the case, according to a legal document that The Associated Press obtained.