BOGOTA, Feb 8, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday that the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel was the "head of the ELN" guerrilla group whose recent turf war over trafficking ...

In a post on social media platform X, Petro called the joint offensive a “military counternarcotics operation.” We seek collaboration between armies in the fight against the ELN. A border without ...

The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...

A series of attacks against civilians has forced Colombia's government to break off peace talks with one of Colombia’s largest rebel groups as fears mount that fighting between rebel groups in the ...

Colombia is struggling to contain violence in the mountainous northeastern Catatumbo region, where a 5,800-strong ELN has ...

Colombia's attorney general's office on Wednesday reissued arrest warrants for leaders of the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, who had been participating in peace talks, as forced displacement ...

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

Colombia is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter, mainly to the United States and Europe, and has spent decades ...

Colombia has launched a military offensive against leftist guerillas blamed for a week of bloody violence on the border with Venezuela, Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said Friday.

The death toll from attacks by ELN rebels in Colombia has risen to 60 in the country's restive Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, officials said Saturday. Rival groups have for years ...

Petro’s government blames the ongoing violence primarily on the ELN, with which it began peace talks after he took office in 2022. Earlier this week, Petro reactivated arrest orders against 31 ...