Troops line up for review by Colombian Army commander Luis Cardozo in Cucuta, south of the Catatumbo region, where former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) holdouts retreated after being ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ...

The ELN has been fighting ex-rebels of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla group, or FARC, in a region known as Catatumbo, close to the border between Colombia and Venezuela.

Tensions between Colombia and Venezuela have escalated after a leaked military intelligence report revealed that rebels responsible for one of ... The National Liberation Army (ELN), the world's ...

The dissidents are pulling back in the region to avoid confrontation with the ELN, said both the EMC and the government's negotiator in peace talks with the former FARC rebels, Camilo Gonzalez.

Earlier on Monday Petro had warned that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of attacks in ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Friday that the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was the “head of the ELN” guerilla group whose recent turf war over trafficking routes has killed dozens ...

The fighting between two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business — ...

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ...

''The ELN has chosen the path of war, and that's what they will get,'' Petro wrote in a message on X, in which he accused the rebels of turning into a drug trafficking group and compared their ...