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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The ELN has denied attacking civilians ... Lieutenant Colonel Amaury Aguilera, sub commander of Colombia's national police in Norte de Santander province, told journalists on Monday.

SEE ALSO: The Colombo-Venezuelan Guerrillas: How Colombia’s War Migrated to Venezuela ... In the Pacific department of Chocó, the ELN’s Western War Front (Frente de Guerra Oriental — FGO) has been ...

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 ...

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.

Colombia's Army announced on Saturday that 104 fighters from a faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), including 20 minors, have deserted from the illegal armed group amid an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Civilians were trapped in the middle, and by Sunday, it was estimated that “more than 80 people have lost their lives,” said governor William Villamizar of the Norte de ... the ELN is one of the ...