Reporting from Yari Plains, Colombia — After more than five decades of bloody civil war, Colombia’s infamous armed guerrillas were preparing for peace. Big-name bands from Bogota descended on a remote ...

The Venezuelan border region and alliances with Maduro have been strategic in the ELN’s 2025 takeover of Colombia’s Catatumbo.

FILE - Rodrigo Granda, right, a former rebel commander and member of the FARC political party, shakes hands with Rocio Lopez, sister of two kidnap victims, who were eventually released, during a ...

At the peak of their strength in 2002, Colombia’s strongest leftist rebel group was capable of taking over entire towns, or killing dozens of soldiers in carefully planned ambushes. But the days of ...

Authorities say FARC rebels targeted a U.S. businessman in Panama April 4. April 29, 2008— -- Photos of three Americans held by Colombian guerrillas are displayed prominently in the lobby of the ...

The Biden administration is facing criticism over reports that the United States government is preparing to remove the Colombian rebel group FARC from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The ...

Colombians narrowly rejected a referendum on Sunday on a peace deal between the government and former rebel group FARC that took over four years to negotiate and would have ended five decades of war.

Last week Colombian and FARC leaders shook hands in Havana. It was the first tangible promise of peace in a half century. But despite this, 170,000 acres of an emerald-green plant still threatens ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When Victoria Sandino, a long-time fighter in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), joined the ...

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – or FARC – who have been engaged in peace talks with the Colombian government for more than two-and-a-half years, has lifted the unilateral ceasefire it ...