A prominent Colombian land-rights activist has been killed on her farm, in one of 28 areas where the FARC rebels are to hand over their weapons under a historic peace deal, officials said Thursday.
Colombia's leftist National Liberation Army rebels said Saturday that their temporary ceasefire would stretch from October 1 to January 9, and not three days later as the government indicated.
Colombian authorities rescued 27 of 72 soldiers held captive Sunday in the country's southwest, an area controlled by guerrillas and plagued by drug cultivation, military officials said.
Colombia's president, fresh off an announcement that the government and FARC rebels aim to sign a definitive peace deal within six months, encouraged the country's other remaining rebel group Sunday to follow suit.
Colombian police said Wednesday they had foiled an attempted "terrorist act" involving a car loaded with explosives in the western city of Cali, host of next month's COP16 UN biodiversity summit.
One of Colombia's biggest left-wing guerrilla groups says peace talks are "blocked" over the government's failure to cancel warrants for the arrest of its leaders.
Colombia is on alert after the killing of five human rights activists in recent days, the government said Monday, warning of potential attempts to destabilize a delicate peace process with the FARC rebels.
The Colombian government and FARC rebels said Wednesday they have set up a joint committee to mediate disputes and oversee implementation of the historic peace deal they concluded last month.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday FARC rebels would keep their weapons until a peace agreement is ratified, but a ceasefire will begin immediately a deal is agreed.
Colombia's government and the country's last active guerrilla group, the ELN, announced a ceasefire Monday, a key step toward sealing a "complete peace" to end Latin America's longest civil war.
The Colombian government and a dissident faction of the FARC guerrilla group that disarmed in 2017, said Tuesday they will observe a ceasefire and hold peace…
A bold Colombian assault on a rebel camp has killed the military leader of the nation's oldest insurgency in what defense officials are calling the "hardest blow ever" against the leftist guerrillas.
Colombia on Tuesday halted arms purchases from the United States, its biggest military partner, after Washington decertified the South American country as an anti-drugs ally for failing to halt cocaine trafficking.
The government of Colombia and armed dissidents who broke off from what was once the nation's largest insurgency agreed to renew a ceasefire and join peace talks, the two sides announced Saturday.
Colombia's FARC former guerrillas relaunched Friday as a political party, changing their logo of rifles for a red rose after disarming to end a half-century civil conflict.
Colombia's leftist FARC rebel force signed a historic peace accord with the government Monday and apologized to the countless victims of the country's half-century civil war.
