With 6,600 FARC fighters set to demobilize and disarm, the country’s now-largest illegal armed group is paramilitary successor group AGC, also known as “Los Urabeños.” The AGC, or Gaitanista Self-Defenses of…
Representatives of the Marxist FARC’s approximately 6,600 fighters have unanimously ratified their leadership’s peace deal with the Colombian state, one of the guerrilla commanders announced Friday. “The war is over,” “Ivan…
The signing of peace between Colombia’s state and the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC, will last the entire day on Monday and is expected to be attended by more…
For more than a decade, Henry Acosta regularly headed into Colombia’s mountains and jungles on foot and mule, fording rivers and evading military intelligence on a secret mission to promote…
Colombia’s peace process will cost the country approximately $31 billion in the coming decade, according to a prominent Swiss conflict expert who was involved in preparing a peace deal with…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday warned leftist rebels that their illicit fortune would be seized and used to pay reparations to war victims should voters approve a peace…
Us President Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed a recently signed peace deal between Colombia’s state and FARC rebels, praising the “historic achievement” after 52 years of armed conflict. Obama met with his Colombian…
The chief negotiator of the FARC, the rebel group that is set to sign peace with Colombia’s state, told CNN Tuesday their mobilization could be postponed until after a referendum…
A day later than expected, Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos appeared before the United Nations’ General Assembly on Wednesday to present world leaders the peace deal that would end the state’s half-a-century…