The United Nations says that the U.S. has given notice that it is halting funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting gangs trying to seize full control of the country’s capital.

Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely untouched by criminals

More than $13 million in U.S. funding for an international security force helping fight armed gangs in Haiti has been frozen under President Donald Trump's 90-day pause on foreign aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Latest deployment raises total number of Kenyan personnel in Haiti to 800, moving closer to target of 1,000 officers under UN-backed mission

Seventy soldiers from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of th

Over $13 million in U.S. aid for an international security effort in Haiti is frozen due to Trump's 90-day foreign aid pause. Armed gangs control much of Port-au-Prince, with the mission supported by international troops struggling to restore order despite significant funding commitments.

As hundreds of armed gang members, entrenched in the hills above Haiti’s capital, await orders to attack the last enclaves not currently under their control, the multinational fight to end their terror is being impeded by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid.