The Latest Breaking News from FARC

Colombia's defense ministry says a rebel group called the Commoners of the South has begun handing its weapons over to the government

Colombia has experienced an upsurge in political and criminal violence over the past few months. In late February, the National Liberation Army (ELN) leftist guerrilla insurgent group carried out four bombings in Cúcuta, a city on the border with Venezuela. Several people were left injured by the attacks, and 1,200…

Human Rights Watch says more than 56,000 people have been displaced since January, and accuses rebel fighters of executions, forced labour and child recruitment.

A prominent human rights group says rebel groups in Colombia have committed “grave abuses” against civilians as they fight for control of the Catatumbo region

Colombia’s newly appointed defense minister says he will focus on taking back territory lost to rebel groups that have forced thousands to flee their homes this year

Twenty-eight police officers and one soldier held hostage in southwest Colombia were released Saturday, according to an AFP team on the ground.

Dissident members of Colombia's FARC rebel group have taken 29 soldiers and police officers captive during clashes with the military in a key cocaine-growing region in the southwest, the defense ministry said Friday.

Colombian President Petro's initiative to eradicate coca in Catatumbo region to combat rebel violence and drug trafficking.

The clash unfolded in a coca-growing region where a turf war has killed dozens of people this year

Businesses are shuttered and public transport is at a standstill in Colombia’s Choco department, as rebels from the National Liberation Army launched a three-day “armed strike” that confines civilians to their homes and restricts commercial activity

McCauley is one of the so-called Colombia Three, accused of training rebel FARC guerrilla forces in 2001.