Many blame Petro for the extreme levels of violence in Colombia in 2025, due to clashes among criminal groups. But the story dates back years.

Colombia’s government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set to expire this week, as both sides hold peace talks in Bogotá in an effort to reduce violence in rural parts ...

Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government on Tuesday said it will end a cease-fire with the largest faction of the FARC-EMC, a holdout rebel group that refused to sign a 2016 peace deal but which ...

The Colombian government and the FARC concluded a key part of peace talks designed to end the 50-year insurgency, hours after the rebels said they would observe a unilateral truce during May 25 ...

Colombia honors soldiers and indigenous people who helped rescue missing children, in Bogota (Reuters) - Colombia's government has reached an agreement to begin peace talks with a faction of dissident ...

Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP) magistrate Camilo Suarez speaks at the sentence hearing of former FARC guerrilla leaders over kidnapping crimes committed during the Colombian armed conflict ...

At least 34 government soldiers have been kidnapped by armed civilians in a jungle in southeastern Colombia after clashes that killed 11 fighters, including a commander of a dissident faction of the ...

During a 10-hour raid on the Colombian town of Buenos Aires, near Cali, guerrillas machine-gunned public buildings, attacked ...

Colombian troops have killed the commander of a FARC guerrilla unit and another rebel in an operation near the Venezuelan border, the army said Tuesday. Elias Tabaco, the head of the FARC's Front 28, ...

Colombia's left-wing Farc rebels have announced a unilateral Christmas ceasefire, on the first day of peace talks in Cuba. The truce will run from Tuesday until 20 January, negotiator Ivan Marquez ...

(Reuters) - Colombian FARC rebels Tuesday plan to free a soldier held hostage for more than 12 years as part of their war on the state. It will be the second release this week by guerrillas. The FARC ...