Gangs in Haiti have opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter as it prepared to land in Port-au-Prince, marking the latest attack in the country's capital as violence surges once again.

Police in Haiti are clashing with gunmen trying to take over one of the few communities in the capital, Port-au-Prince, that is not controlled by gangs.

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.

Multiple gangs are attacking several communities in Haiti's capital.

A new report has found that nearly 6,000 people in Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country’s population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse, as gang violence smothers life in the capital of Port-au-Prince and beyond.

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.

Haiti's prime minister says at least 15 people have been killed and 40 others seriously injured after a tanker truck carrying gasoline flipped over and exploded.

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.

After arriving at Haiti’s National Palace this week, Local 10 News witnessed a significant change in the Caribbean nation: dozens of members of its newly reformed military, marking the first time since the 1990s that Haiti has had an army.

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.

Dramatic scenes unfolded on the streets of Port-au-Prince Monday morning, highlighting the ongoing struggle for control in Haiti’s capital.

Police in Haiti’s capital tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful protesters in the capital, Port-au-Prince, as they called on law enforcement to help them stop the gangs that have violently seized control of their neighborhoods.

Local 10′s Calvin Hughes arrived in Port-au-Prince on Monday, bringing viewers a firsthand look at Haiti’s challenges and efforts to rebuild a country that was once hailed as the crown jewel of the Caribbean.

To discuss the changing dynamic of this year’s elections, Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Florida lawmakers Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, and Alex Rizo, a Republican. Carlton Gillespie, of Florida International University; Laralyn Jackson, of the University of Miami; and Liv Caputo, of Florida State University joined Milberg for the TWISF NextGen Roundtable. For the Tell Me Something Good segment, Milberg interviews Miami Northwestern High’s track and field coach Carmen Jackson, who is going to Paris to cheer for a group of her mentees competing in the Olympic Games.

Children in Haiti desperately need the country’s new prime minister to succeed.

Amid an ongoing anti-gang crackdown involving a United Nations-backed law enforcement mission, Haitian authorities reported a prison break turned deadly in Saint-Marc, a coastal city north of Port-au-Prince.

The office of Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille says security officers had to fire shots to cover leader’s exit from a hospital in Port-au-Prince.

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.

Officials in Haiti say at least three people have died and up to 40 remain missing after a boat in the waters off northern Haiti caught fire with up to 80 Haitians on board trying to escape to the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has ordered gangs to surrender their weapons and acknowledged how dangerous life in Haiti’s capital and beyond has become.

Another 200 police officers from Kenya have arrived in Haiti for a U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs that have taken over parts of the troubled Caribbean country.

Haiti’s newly selected Prime Minister Garry Conille and Haiti’s police chief visited the capital’s largest hospital, after authorities said they took control of the medical institution over the weekend from armed gangs.

The head of the Kenya-led multinational force tasked with curbing gang violence in Haiti says “there’s no room for failure” and is committing to ensuring democratic elections.

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections.

The U.N. says criminal gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March.

Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence.

The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police officers has arrived in Haiti, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.

A new report from the U.N. migration agency says that surging violence in Haiti from clashes with armed gangs has displaced nearly 580,000 people since March.

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 government says the country's newly selected prime minister has been hospitalized in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

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.

Hundreds of people in Haiti are mourning the death of Judes Montis.

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.

A family member says a U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who worked with them were shot and killed by gang members in Haiti’s capital who attacked them as they left a youth group activity held at a local church.

Haiti’s main international airport has reopened nearly three months after gang violence forced authorities to close it.

Violence is traumatizing Haitian children.

A growing number of civilians and police officers are demanding the dismissal and arrest of Haiti’s police chief as heavily armed gangs launched a new attack in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that is surprising many as gang violence consumes the country.

Gangs in Haiti have laid siege to several neighborhoods in the capital, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced.

A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is dividing a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country.

It’s been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on its members is rapidly growing.

Haiti has opened a new political chapter with the installation of a transitional council tasked with picking a new prime minister and preparing for eventual presidential elections, in hopes of quelling spiraling gang violence that has killed thousands in the Caribbean country.

A transitional council charged with selecting a new prime minister and Cabinet for Haiti is demanding that its members be sworn in at the National Palace, raising concerns about their safety.

Life-saving medication and equipment is dwindling or altogether absent at hospitals and clinics across Haiti's capital as brutal gangs tighten their grip on Port-au-Prince and beyond.

Life in Port-au-Prince has become a game of survival, pushing Haitians to new limits as they scramble to stay safe and alive while gangs overwhelm the police and the government remains largely absent.

Fresh gunfire has erupted in Haiti's capital, forcing aid workers in downtown Port-au-Prince to halt urgently needed care for thousands of people.

Haiti’s National Police says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.

More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks as deadly gang violence continues.

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.

A Florida Division of Emergency Management flight from Haiti landed early Sunday morning at Orlando International Airport with 21 Floridians rescued from the crisis. Hundreds more want to leave.

U.N. officials say more than 33,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in a span of nearly two weeks as gangs continue to pillage homes and attack state institutions.

Gunfire has erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital.

The second flight chartered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis transporting U.S. citizens out of Haiti landed at Miami International Airport on Thursday.

Armed gangs are launching new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, with heavy gunfire echoing across once-peaceful communities near the Haitian capital.

Caribbean leaders say all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti.

The airport in Port-au-Prince remains closed as gangs control the area, leading to the first official evacuation flight bringing 30 Americans to Miami on Sunday.

Gangs have attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas.

A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti has landed in Miami.

A number of government and aid agencies in Haiti have reported their facilities and aid supplies have been looted as Haiti spirals into another wave of gang violence.

Caribbean officials say a plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country.

Travelers on cruises in the Caribbean are receiving changes to their itineraries because of the political unrest in Haiti.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is ordering more than 250 law enforcement officers and soldiers to the Florida Keys to help stop what he anticipates to be an increase in Haitian migrants fleeing violence in their country.

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As Haitian gang violence runs rampant, the U.S. military airlifted personnel in and out of the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Southern Command reported on Sunday at the request of the U.S. State Department.

The U.S. military has flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel.

As Haitian gang violence runs rampant, the U.S. military airlifted personnel in and out of the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Southern Command reported on Sunday at the request of the U.S. State Department.

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.

Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods.

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.

Ariana Cubillos is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela.

Haiti’s government says it is extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the capital of Port-au-Prince in a fierce political battle for power.

Haitian politicians started pursuing new alliances Wednesday, seeking a coalition that could lead the country out of the gang violence that has closed the main airport and prevented embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning home.

Haiti’s embattled prime minister has landed in Puerto Rico as he tries to return to Haiti to quell a surge in violent gang attacks.

Gangs in Haiti are increasingly powerful, and they've been attacking prisons and the main international airport.

Heavily armed gangs have tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport as they exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers trying to repel them.

Hundreds of inmates have fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight in an overnight explosion of violence that engulfed much of the capital.

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.

Officials say six members of a religious congregation in Haiti and a teacher have been kidnapped while gathered in front of a school in the capital.

Haitian Bishop Pierre-André Dumas was at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Saturday after arriving at Miami International Airport.

Bishop Pierre Andre Dumas gave the homily when he visited Miami’s Notre Dame D’haiti church two years ago.

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.

A former rebel leader has made a surprise appearance in Haiti’s capital amid large protests across the country for the second consecutive day, demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

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.

The archbishop of Port-au-Prince says six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released.

Religious leaders say six nuns have been kidnapped in Haiti as they traveled on a bus through the capital.

Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti’s capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack.

Haiti's law enforcement authorities say a member of a violent gang accused of kidnapping four U_S_ citizens has been extradited to the U_S_ Haiti’s National Police on Tuesday identified the individual as Jhon Peter Fleronvil who is affiliated with the gang known as “Kokorat San Ras,” roughly translated to mean “Cohorts of No Race.”.

A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them.

Kenya says it won't deploy its police officers to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U.

Kenyan lawmakers say that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang violence that was approved by the U.N. Security Council this week.

Children across Haiti's capital are playing drums, bass guitar and piano to drown out the trouble that erupts around them daily.

Foreigners with guns are met with hostility in most countries in the world.

The U.S. Embassy in Haiti issued a security alert on Wednesday warning U.S. citizens need to leave the troubled Caribbean country “as soon as possible”

The director of Haiti’s National Police is vowing to hold accountable those who encouraged hundreds of parishioners to take up machetes and sticks over the weekend to rid a community of gang members, only to be fatally shot by them.