For decades, El Salvador was a country that people fled — escaping gang violence, poverty, natural disasters and civil wars.

This week’s White House meeting between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered a crucial opportunity. It should have marked an era of renewed US engagement with our ...

The president of El Salvador announced his country has accepted hundreds of Venezuelan gang members who were illegally living in the United States, as a U.S. judge moved to block deportations of ...

Since Mr. Bukele ordered mass arrests in 2022, El Salvador has become one of the safest countries in the region, earning him broad support from Salvadorans in a landslide re-election last year.

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2025.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered to accept convicted criminals of any nationality the U.S. wants to deport and house them in his country's prison system.

Salvadoran journalist, Mario Guevara, arrested covering a June protest, is still being held by ICE despite judge's order to ...

SAN SALVADOR, Feb 3 (Reuters) - El Salvador on Monday offered to house in its jails "dangerous criminals" from anywhere in the world deported by the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Marco ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck El Salvador on Sunday at 9:50 PM local time. The epicenter was located 9 km south of the Conchagua district in La Unión Department, about 180 km southeast of San ...

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.