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) -- ...

2005-07-24 04:00:00 PDT Ahuachapan Province, El Salvador-- To the naked eye, Guaymango resembles any other isolated, poor Central American mountain village defined by timelessness and obscurity ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Iraq can learn from the recent history of El Salvador, a country wrecked by civil war that has developed into stable democracy and close U.S. ally, Defense Secretary ...

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 ...

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

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 ...