BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia on Friday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, for a second time in less than a year after blaming the rebel group for recent violence in ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced the suspension of peace talks with National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, accusing the group of committing war crimes in the Catatumbo region on ...

BOGOTA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended peace talks with the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) on Friday, after accusing the group of committing a war crime in ...

The ELN has been fighting ex-rebels of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla group, or FARC, in a region known as Catatumbo, close to the border between Colombia and Venezuela.

More than 30 people were allegedly killed in northeast Colombia since Thursday when guerrilla group ELN embarked on a major offensive in the Catatumbo region. According to Ombudsman Iris Marin, the ...

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.

“The ELN has chosen the path of war, and that’s what they will get,” Petro wrote in a message on X, in which he accused the rebels of turning into a drug trafficking group and compared their ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday that he will declare a state of emergency over the guerrilla attacks in the northeast that have killed dozens of people and ...

Earlier on Monday Petro had warned that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of attacks in ...

FILE - Colombian government representative Vera Grabe, left, and Colombian commander of the National Liberation Army guerrilla group (ELN) Pablo Beltran exchange their signed ceasefire extension ...

Swathes of violence erupted after the Colombian government halted peace negotiations with the ELN last Friday, accusing the group of war crimes. "The dialogue process with this group is suspended ...