Earlier on Monday Petro had warned that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of attacks in ...

The ELN has traditionally dominated in Catatumbo, but has been losing ground to holdouts from the FARC, a guerrilla group that largely disbanded after signing a peace deal in 2016 with the government.

Gustavo Aníbal Giraldo, third in command of the armed group, is accused of being the architect of the attacks in Catatumbo, ...

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

A series of attacks against civilians has forced Colombia's government to break off peace talks with one of Colombia’s ...

A Colombian official says more than 80 people have been killed in the country’s northeast region following failed attempts by the government to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army.

BOGOTA, Feb 8, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday that the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was the "head of the ELN" guerrilla group whose recent turf war over trafficking ...

With Donald Trump in the White House and Marco Rubio in the State Department, the days of coddling our anti-American Marxist ...

The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia on Friday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, for a second time in less than a year after blaming the rebel group for recent ...

Among those fleeing were former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who demobilized in a 2016 peace deal with the government, and have now been targeted by the ELN. People ...