The region is home to several armed groups that vie for control over the lucrative drug trade and routes. Among them, the ELN’s Northeast War Front (Frente de Guerra Nororiental – FGNO) is one of the ...

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

According to the ELN’s Northeastern War Front, the offensive seeks to expel FARC dissident group EMB and their supporters from the region. Social organizations have decried the assassination of ...

This was the country's deadliest wave of violence since the peace accords set by President Gustavo Petro in 2016 ...

The attacks revived dark memories of decades of civil war with leftist movements that many Colombians hoped had finally ended in recent years. “The ELN has chosen the path of war, and that’s ...

Colombia’s oldest active guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), began attacking dissidents of the now-extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). At least 80 are dead ...

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

The state signed a peace deal with FARC in 2016, after more than 50 years of war. The ELN had also clashed with ... that we had warned that if the 33rd Front of the ex-FARC continued attacking ...

The government has vowed "war" against the left-wing guerrillas ... Military intelligence sources say the ELN is seeking to ...

Authorities have said that they are investigating other deaths. “What the ELN has committed in Catatumbo are war crimes," said Petro, without giving more details. The government suspended peace ...