Two top Peruvian officials resigned Thursday amid a growing public outcry over clashes between government forces and Shining Path rebels.
After battling government forces, a Maoist guerrilla group in Peru has released 36 hostages it captured earlier this week, state media reported Saturday.
Peruvian authorities have deployed 1,500 troops and police to search for dozens of gas workers taken hostage by rebels in southern Peru this week.
Peruvian troops have captured a leader of the Shining Path guerrilla group, state media reported Sunday.
The Shining Path, the Maoist terrorist group that wreaked havoc in Peru in the 1980s, has admitted defeat and seeks to negotiate an end to its war with the government, one of the group's top leaders told a nongovernmental organization.
In a bucolic, picturesque town in southwest England, British police say they arrested a man linked to crimes against humanity and torture in Peru during the 1980s and '90s.
Paul Refsdal is an independent Norwegian journalist who has spent the last 26 years reporting from the frontlines of some of the world's toughest conflicts. He began his career in writing and photography in 1984 by going with the Mujahedeen to Afghanistan. In the '80s, he embedded with Karen rebels in Burma, with the LTTE in Sri Lanka, with Sandinista forces in Nicaragua, and with Guatemalan insurgents. In the '90s, he reported on the Shining Path in Peru, the KLA in Kosovo, as well as Chechen and Albanian rebels in Macedonia.
Maoist guerrillas in Peru shot down a Peruvian air force helicopter, killing two airmen and wounding a third, the nation's defense minister has said.
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced Monday to seven and a half years in prison for paying his one-time spy chief a $15 million bonus out of the government treasury.
A brutal Maoist guerrilla group that terrorized Peru during the 1980s but pretty much disappeared when top leaders were captured in the 1990s is making a resurgence.
A three-judge panel of the Peruvian Supreme Court found former President Alberto Fujimori guilty Tuesday on charges involving human rights violations, including murder and kidnapping, and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
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Maoist insurgents killed a dozen soldiers and two civilians during an ambush in southeastern Peru, the military said Friday.
The trial of former President Alberto Fujimori opened here Monday with his former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, declaring his boss innocent of the charges he faces.
Forensic teams have exhumed 60 bodies from what is thought to be the largest mass grave from the Peruvian government's bloody war against Maoist insurgents.
Legislators in Peru plan to lodge a protest on Friday with the European Parliament after it declined to list the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, an insurgent group, as a terrorist organization.
The former director of national intelligence in Peru was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday for his role in the deaths of nine college students and a professor in 1992.
Peru's former president, Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to six years in prison. CNN's Lonzo Cook reports.
Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for a fashion faux pas of the political sort.
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