Colombia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that it is ready to facilitate the release of nine officials who have fallen in the hands of ELN guerrillas over the past months. The announcement…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal has called 31 former guerrilla commanders of the FARC to trial over their alleged role in the kidnapping of thousands of people, the court announced Friday.…
Colombia’s last-standing rebel group, the ELN, has told news agency Reuters it killed a Russian hostage in April when he tried to escape. The Armenia-born captive, Arsen Voskanyan, had been kidnapped…
The official radio station of Colombia’s last-standing rebel group, the ELN, on Friday retracted an earlier claim it had released two Dutch journalists held hostage since Saturday. Conservative television network…
Two Dutch journalists who have been held hostage by Colombia’s last-standing rebel group ELN have been released, the guerrillas and television network RCN said Friday. According to one of the…
Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebel group said on Thursday that two Dutch journalists it captured this week in the northeastern part of the Andean nation were in good health and would…
The United Nations on Friday called on the kidnappers of a UN worker to release proof the victim is alive, and to establish contact in order to facilitate his release.…
Alleged dissidents of the FARC, until last year Colombia’s largest rebel group, are reportedly willing to release a kidnapped United Nations official if military operations are temporarily ceased in the area…
The United Nations on Thursday rejected demands by dissidents FARC guerrillas and reiterated its call to immediately release the UN employee held hostage since last week. In a press release, the United…