Both the ELN and FARC-EMC have long fought for control over this drug-rich area, but recent violence marks a significant escalation.

The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...

The discovery of Ronald Ojeda’s body encased in concrete in Chile has raised new fears over how far President Nicolás Maduro will go to keep his stranglehold on Venezuela.

Failed peace negotiations and the battle for control over valuable territory have produced an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

The National Liberation Army (ELN), the world's oldest active guerrilla group ... According to the report, at least 80 combatants armed with assault rifles and explosives moved through Venezuela's ...

The criminal gang originated in a Venezuela prison and has slowly spread both north ... In Colombia, Tren de Aragua and a ...

(AP Photo/Mario Caicedo) People displaced by violence in towns across the Catatumbo region, where rebels of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, have been clashing with former members of the ...

The National Liberation Army, or ELN, is trying to assert control ... ELN members openly guarding checkpoints. Still, Petro's Venezuela gambit is fraught with potential pitfalls.

Officials said the attacks occurred in several towns located in the Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela ... peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, on Friday, the ...

on the border with Venezuela, where rival groups have for years been fighting for control of the cocaine trade. The latest fighting pitted rebels from the left-wing National Liberation Army ...