One Colombian soldier is dead and another one is injured following clashes with guerrilla dissidents in a coca-growing region ...

Deadly Colombian narcos war flares up as military and guerrilla dissidents clash - The clash unfolded in a coca-growing ...

Officials said the attacks occurred in several towns located in the Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, with at least three people who were part of the peace talks being kidnapped.

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

Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is famously renowned as the world's lightning capital. Here, the ...

In a vehicle with his two bodyguards, Cristian Herrera talks about the dangers he faces covering Colombia’s Catatumbo region as he heads to his latest assignment. An independent reporter ...

More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between militant factions, according to the country’s Ombudsman Iris Marín.

The unusually deadly violence delivers a devastating blow to the “total peace” program of the country’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared a state of emergency in Catatumbo region Friday in response to escalating violence between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and “dissident” factions of the ...

Violence between armed groups in the Catatumbo region has displaced more than 32,000 people, rights groups estimate. Soldiers deploy in Tibu, Colombia, on January 20 amid an uptick in violence ...

The isolation of Catatumbo due to the armed conflict has ... Church activists have been especially worried about men. In Cucuta, a large city on the border with Venezuela, the Church has been ...

Colombian special forces have been deployed into territory controlled by armed groups in a bid to stem an outbreak of hostilities among the rebels. Late on Tuesday, government troops moved into ...