Sixteen alleged dissident members of the demobilized guerrilla group FARC were killed in an airstrike in northeast Colombia, according to the country’s defense minister. According to Minister Luis Carlos Villegas,…
Colombia’s national army has killed six dissident FARC members in the southwest of the country, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The rogue guerrillas were killed in an offensive against “Gaucho,” the…
Eleven dissident FARC guerrillas were killed and two captured in the south of Colombia, the defense minister said on Monday. The operation is the second alleged strike in a month…
Colombia’s defense ministry claimed Wednesday that security forces have killed eight dissident FARC guerrillas and arrested three more near the border with Ecuador. The alleged guerrillas of the FARC’s dissident…
Colombia’s Ombudsman and the Mayor of Bogota have been trading public blows after the human rights office released a report over increased activity of illegal armed groups in Bogota. The report…
A dissident faction of Colombia’s former FARC guerrilla group demanded a ceasefire from Ecuador on Monday to repatriate murdered hostages from that country. The splinter group’s chief, alias “Guacho,” is…
Some 18 offshoot factions have formed from demobilized rebel group the FARC throughout Colombia, according to a leading think tank. Between 1200-1500 fighters of the 14,000 that demobilized in 2016…
Colombia and Ecuador resumed preliminary border protection talks in Quito on Monday on the back of a growing presence of rogue guerrilla groups along the border, announced Colombia’s Ministry of…