With the blue and white United Nations flag flying over a sun-drenched parade ground, 260 Nicaraguan rebels surrendered their weapons to a U.N. peacekeeping force Monday. It was the first time that ...

After months of lying low, Nicaragua’s contra rebels are on the attack once more. Last week, in action more vigorous than any seen in a year, the guerrillas staged a quick series of assaults that were ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Eugene Hasenfus, who played a key role in unraveling the Iran-Contra affair after his CIA-backed supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986, has died. Hasenfus died on Nov.

The Nicaraguan Contras are willing to lay down their weapons and return home if the Sandinistas agree to simultaneously give up control of the army under international supervision, according to a ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) – Adolfo Calero, who led the largest force of U.S.-backed rebels against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government in the 1980s and found himself entangled in the Iran-Contra scandal, ...

In another instance of U.S. involvement, administration sources said that while the contras awaited delivery of the missiles, U.S. officials in Central America, acting on their own, described for the ...

Former members of the Contra guerrillas who fought Nicaragua's Sandinista government in the 1980s are demanding back pay for their efforts from the U.S. government. The CIA helped organize and train ...

SAN BENITO, Nicaragua -- As a young insurgent fighting to overturn Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista revolution during the 1980s, Martín Laguna chose the alias "Comandante Amargura," Spanish for ...