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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The end of a fragile truce between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and a FARC offshoot called the 33rd Front "delivers a devastating ... "The ELN has chosen the path of war, and war will ...

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 ...