Colombia’s armed forces put a general investigated for the murder of 22 civilians in charge of military operations in one of the country’s most violent regions. The appointment of controversial Brigadier…
A grenade thrown into a club on Monday injured at least 25 people in the town of El Bagre, Antioquia, where two rival paramilitary groups are vying over control. Local media reported…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque visited the Bajo Cauca region on Thursday to be informed about escalating violence that has seen homicides double in the long-neglected region. Bajo Cauca has increasingly…
Clashes between AGC paramilitaries, ELN guerrillas and the military have displaced 1,500 people from a coca and gold-rich area in northern Colombia, according to aid organizations. A third crime group, Los…
An attack on a nightclub in an important cocaine hub in northern Colombia has highlighted tensions between two of the country’s most important criminal organizations. Both the police and independent…
More than 400 people from several villages in northern Colombia were forced to flee their homes and one 14-year-old girl was killed in ongoing violence between leftist rebel group FARC, their neo-paramilitary rivals…
Eighteen journalists in Colombia’s northern state of Antioquia are working under constant fear from death threats over their reporting on criminal gangs, national media reported on Monday.
Local authorities and the national army said Saturday that seven alleged members of neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” have been killed in combat in the north of Colombia.
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC has failed in its attempt to recreate the organization’s so-called Caribbean Bloc due to repeated pressure from the Armed Forces, the Colombian army said on…