BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ...

Gustavo Aníbal Giraldo, third in command of the armed group, is accused of being the architect of the attacks in Catatumbo, ...

The ELN launched an ... Villamizar of the Norte de Santander department that includes Catatumbo. The last toll on Saturday was estimated at 60 people, including seven former fighters from the ...

Authorities in Norte de Santander are waiting ... while the ELN resumed kidnappings, bombings of oil pipelines, and attacks on security forces. Colombia's majority state-owned energy company ...

The ELN is currently engaged in a territorial ... at the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024. President... Colombia's President Gustavo Petro is pictured during ...

The armed forces of Colombia and Venezuela kicked off coordinated ... the rupture of ties between the two neighbors in 2019 allowed the ELN to grow its guerrilla organization in the Norte de Santander ...

Civilians caught in the crossfire as ELN guerillas target former members of a separate rebel group in the bloodiest violence in recent years A fresh outbreak of guerilla violence amid a faltering ...

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ELN has an open conflict with the paramilitary Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC) or Clan del Golfo, especially in the ...

Colombia is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter, mainly to the United States and Europe, and has spent decades ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that Colombia was suspending permission for previously authorized U.S.

Among those fleeing were former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who demobilized in a 2016 peace deal with the government, and have now been targeted by the ELN. Colombia’s ...

More than 80 people have been killed in just three days in northeast Colombia following failed attempts to hold peace talks with the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN), an official has said.