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A Colombian court on Tuesday struck down former President Alvaro Uribe's convictions for fraud and bribery in a lengthy legal saga over alleged witness tampering that could have resulted in him serving 12 years of house...

The National Coordinator of the Bolivarian Army (CNEB), one of five dissident groups of Colombia's former FARC guerrilla movement, handed over its first batch of armaments as a sign of goodwill in talks with the Colombia...

A Venezuelan human rights activist and a political consultant were shot and injured in Colombia's capital on Monday in a hitman-style attack, Colombian officials said.

Colombia carried out its largest domestic public debt swap in history, for 43.4 trillion pesos ($11.18 billion), the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday night, as part of its debt management strategy amid the country's st...

Colombia's once-weakened armed groups are growing their power again, the country's ombudswoman told AFP Monday, as the country heads toward its most violent year in a decade.

Once again, Colombia decided to keep interest rates unchanged after the Central Bank’s board meeting. Thus, the rate remains at 9.25%, where it has been since May, following the return of the inflationary threat.

Twenty-three workers were rescued Wednesday after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine in northern Colombia. The miners were met with applause as they emerged from the La Reliquia mine, located...

A special Colombian court created under a 2016 peace deal on Thursday sentenced 12 former soldiers to eight years of reparations work for their role in the extrajudicial executions of 135 people.

At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or have gone missing around the world in 2024, with more than 80% of those cases in Latin America, according to a report released Wednesday by watchdog group Glob...

Colombia’s peace tribunal on Tuesday issued its first sentence on war crimes committed during decades of internal conflict, finding seven former leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, guilty of impo...

The Trump administration on Monday added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in almost 30 years, a stinging rebuke to a traditional U.S. ally that reflects a recent surge...

Dissidents of the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attacked a police station in southwestern Colombia Sunday, killing a police officer and wounding four people, authorities said.

Forty-five Colombian soldiers held in a drug trafficking area in the country's west were released, the Colombian army said on Monday, putting an end to latest in a string of such incidents the government blames on rebels...

The assassination of presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay this past June, the conspiracy orchestrated by the former foreign minister Alvaro Leyva Duran to overthrow President Gustavo Petro, the diplomatic crisis betw...

Fresh incidents, including a bombing and political assassination, have revived fears of the nation's violent recent past, just as the government’s flagship peace plan faces mounting skepticism.

Thirty-four Colombian soldiers have spent more than four days being held captive in a remote jungle community in the southeastern department of Guaviare, after clashes with FARC dissidents left 11 rebels dead, including...

At least 34 soldiers were kidnapped by armed civilians in a jungle area of southeastern Colombia after clashes that left 11 guerrillas dead, including a commander of a dissident faction of the former FARC rebel group, De...

Colombia’s anti-government guerrillas have grown stronger under President Gustavo Petro’s three years in office. That strength was on display in brazen attacks this week that included a car bombing and the downing of a p...

A car bomb and a separate attack on a police helicopter in Colombia killed at least 13 people on Thursday, according to authorities. President Gustavo Petro attributed both incidents to dissidents of the defunct Revoluti...

The high protection cost allocated to guerrilla representatives has raised a controversial debate in Colombia as some of the country’s most feared criminal players have been moving freely across regions in armored SUVs,...