B OGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government's failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday ordered the suspension of a military offensive against a faction of what was once ...

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, center, stands for the playing of the national anthem during a meeting with delegates of the Comuneros del Sur, a dissident faction of the National Liberation Army ...

The Commoners of the South, a rebel group in Colombia, has started disarming as part of peace talks with the government. This step marks progress in President Gustavo Petro's 'total peace' strategy, ...

The demobilization of an ELN faction is a symbolic rather than substantive step forward for Colombia’s Total Peace policy.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia remains open to dialogue with ... The government of President Gustavo Petro suspended peace talks with the ELN in January, after the rebels launched a series of attacks ...

That angered the ELN’s leadership and stymied its negotiations with Colombia’s government. Petro, who was part of a rebel group in his youth, has been staging peace talks with nine separate ...

PASTO, Colombia — A rebel group called the Commoners of the South has begun handing its weapons over to Colombia’s government, the Defense Ministry said Saturday, as part of peace talks ...

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to discuss ongoing peace talks in Pasto, Colombia, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) ...