The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia's most impoverished places, ...

The Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, FARC guerrillas ... said the Colombian Army outgoing commander, General Oscar Gonzalez. “When we started with the ‘democratic security’ policy ...

Pastrana held out a fresh olive branch to the FARC last week by announcing that the land-for-peace deal with the rebel army would remain in effect until January 31 -- well past a December 6 ...

or FARC - the group’s Spanish acronym. The army in the statement blamed an improvised explosive device for the wounded soldier’s injuries. Two dissidents were also injured. The army did not ...

Authorities blamed a FARC dissident group for the mass abduction ... security personnel -- including a police lieutenant colonel and army major -- were taken hostage as insurance against a new attack.

Farc rebels laid down their arms in a historic ... financing themselves though drug-trafficking and illegal mining. The army said the helicopter was taking part in an operation against dissidents ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that dissidents of the FARC rebel group function as a "private army" for Mexican drug cartels, stressing the importance of combating guerrilla ...

At least five soldiers were killed Tuesday (Wednesday, Manila time) in a bomb attack by dissident FARC guerrillas in a key ...

and dissident groups of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP in Spanish) under the name of General Staff of Blocks and Front (EMBF in Spanish) were reported. Amid ...

Major armed groups like the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels and former FARC who formed dissident organizations have internally fractured during Petro's term, undermining most negotiations.