Colombia’s armed forces on Wednesday suspended military operations in an area in the southwest of the country. The temporary halt of operations is to allow a humanitarian mission carry out…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Sunday killed two Colombian soldiers and injured three more in a mine explosion in western Colombia. At approximately 4PM on Sunday afternoon, the…
Colombia’s police said Saturday that guerrilla group FARC has kidnapped two policemen in the southwestern Valle del Cauca department. The alleged kidnapping took place on Friday, the same day President…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday announced to send police reinforcements to the Valle del Cauca department where — contrary to the national trend — violence indicators have gone…
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Friday dispatched 430 soldiers to the troubled Valle del Cauca department in western Colombia hours after the army thwarted an attack. In the last…
A series of violent acts in Colombia’s southwestern has made authorities fear that two powerful drug trafficking organizations are waging a war for control over the strategically important southwestern Valle…
Two Colombian soldiers have been arrested after they were caught transporting half a ton of cocaine, authorities said Thursday. The lieutenant and his subordinate were caught with 410 kilograms of…
The ten alleged drug traffickers slain in western Colombia on Friday may have been involved in a gang war between the “La Empresa” and “Los Urabeños” drug gangs, claimed police…
At least ten alleged drug traffickers have been assassinated just outside the Pacific port city of Buenaventura in what seems to be a war between drug trafficking gangs, Colombia’s police…