The ELN has in recent days also clashed with the Gulf Clan, the largest drug cartel in the world’s biggest cocaine producer, leaving at least nine dead in a different part of northern Colombia. The ...

The ELN rebel group is a deadly and powerful presence in the region More than 32,000 people have fled the northern Colombian ... Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

Officials in Colombia hope phytoremediation is applied in other places damaged by mining, after seeing quick and dramatic results in Río Viejo and other sites.

Petro, who is up for reelection in 2026, donned the presidential sash with the intention of bringing peace to Colombia at the negotiating table. His plans in ruins, and having failed to bring peace to ...

A fierce outbreak of fighting in northern Colombia between rival guerilla factions in a drug turf war, has displaced tens of thousands of people.

The measure will go into effect after a decree is signed by the President and his Cabinet, but it can also be invalidated by Colombia’s constitutional court. Internal commotion decrees were used in ...

More than 32,000 people have fled the northern Colombian region of Catatumbo ... and dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). One official government agency said ...

JOHN OTIS, BYLINE: The fighting began last month in Catatumbo, a remote area in northern Colombia that borders Venezuela. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED ELN REBEL: (Whistling).