10 soldiers dead in east Colombia combat
Ten soldiers on Sunday were killed in combat with guerrillas from the FARC in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca, army sources told local media. The army is involved in…
Ten soldiers on Sunday were killed in combat with guerrillas from the FARC in the eastern Colombian department of Arauca, army sources told local media. The army is involved in…
Twelve FARC guerrillas were killed when the Colombian airforce and special forces attacked one of guerrilla leader “Alfonso Cano’s” security rings in the central Tolima department early Sunday morning, the…
A minefield in eastern Colombia, and attacks on the vehicles of intelligence and judicial officials, killed at least seven members of the armed forces and one civilian on Saturday. According…
A total of 191 FARC and ELN guerrillas demobilized in June, according to the Colombian Defense Ministry’s Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), Efe reports. Of the demobilized…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba said in a radio interview Wednesday that she is in negotiations with guerrilla organization the FARC to go beyond a prisoner exchange and seek a resolution…
NGO International Crisis Group calls on Colombian President-elect Santos to “acknowledge that Colombia has still not reached the postconflict phase” and to form an “integrated” strategy to tackle illegal armed…
Alfonso Cano, supreme leader of Colombia’s marxist guerrilla group FARC, does not fight to improve the situation of the country’s poor, but because of a personal lust for money, a…
The Colombian government praises the widely criticized demobilization of paramilitary organization AUC, stressing that the peace process led to the discovery of some 40,000 crimes. According to a report by…
Colombia’s Vice President-elect Angelino Garzon told the country’s largest rebel group FARC that the incoming government of Juan Manuel Santos is willing to talk peace, but only if the rebels…