El presidente de Colombia le responde a la guerrilla, diciendo que ésta le miente a la comunidad internacional.
Colombian rebel group FARC promises to free all military and police hostages and to cease kidnapping for money.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, said Sunday it will free its remaining 10 government hostages and stop kidnapping civilians for money.
Colombian guerrillas have postponed the release of six hostages because of alleged militarization in the area where they operate, the group said Wednesday.
Colombia's main leftist group suggested on Monday it is willing to reopen talks with the government.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has tapped a leading general accused by the United States of being a drug "kingpin" to be the country's new defense minister.
Colombia's main leftist rebel group says it plans to release six hostages, including three who have been in captivity for more than 12 years.
Colombia's main leftist rebel group shot and killed four hostages held for more than a decade, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday, vowing to fight the rebels with everything in reach.
Colombia's main leftist rebel group announced Tuesday that it had selected a new leader after its former chief was killed in a military operation earlier this month.
The U.S. Treasury Department has added four Venezuelan officials to its drug "kingpin" list for allegedly providing arms and security to the FARC leftist guerrilla group.
A Colombian man who federal authorities say was a leader of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was convicted in U.S. federal court Thursday of conspiring to import thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, according to prosecutors.
Colombian Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera resigned Wednesday amid growing concern in the country over increased activity by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
More than 15,000 people descended on this oil-rich north-central Colombian city last week to attend a national "peace congress" aimed at bringing calm to areas torn by decades of fighting among guerrillas, paramilitary units and government forces.
The call came in the morning of July 30 to the offices of the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, a local organization in the province of the same name in southern Colombia. A woman asked for group's boss and, at being asked to identify herself, threatened the person who answered the phone.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday that the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia escaped an attack by less than a day.
Three members of a Colombian paramilitary organization were convicted Tuesday in federal court in New York for their role in the kidnapping of an American who was held hostage in a jungle camp for nearly a year.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will face an investigation into whether his presidential campaign received money from Colombian leftist guerrillas, Ecuador's attorney general's office said.
Venezuelan authorities may hand over an alleged leader of a leftist guerrilla group Monday, Colombia's president said.
Colombian armed forces have killed 15 guerrillas in the western province of Cauca, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday.
The Colombian military killed a rebel leader who was a liaison with Mexican drug cartels, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.
An operation to retrieve two Colombian hostages held by the FARC rebel group will resume Tuesday, the Red Cross said, but the government denied that it had authorized such a move.
Two hostages freed by a Colombian rebel group reunited with their family members in the country's capital Friday.
A Colombian rebel group is expected to release two hostages Friday, according to a former senator who helped coordinate the humanitarian mission to free them.
CNN's Michael Holmes talks with Luis Carlos Velez about the timing of the latest FARC hostage release.
Colombian politician Marcos Baquero was released by the FARC Colombian rebel group after one year and seven months of captivity, according to CNN affiliate Caracol TV.
Colombian rebels say they are ready to start the unilateral release of five hostages, according to a message posted Wednesday on a former Colombian senator's website.
This holiday season, the Colombian military is trying a unique angle to get guerrillas to lay down their arms: It is creating Christmas trees deep in the jungle in hopes the holiday spirit will tug the rebels back home.
Colombian rebels say they plan to release five hostages as a humanitarian gesture.
The Colombian military on Monday killed at least 13 FARC guerrillas in an airstrike in southern Colombia, officials said.
A woman convicted of collaborating with the notorious Colombian guerrilla group FARC has been deported, U.S. immigration officials said Thursday.
Colombia's attorney general removed and disqualified Sen. Piedad Cordoba from the Congress for 18 years for having "promoted and collaborated" with the FARC guerrillas, the attorney general's office said in a statement.
CNN's Karl Penhaul reports Colombian govt. says FARC's second in command was killed in a joint operation.
The No. 2 leader in a Marxist guerrilla group that has been at war with the Colombian government since the 1960s has been killed in a military raid, President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday.
A Colombian airstrike over the weekend killed a high-ranking rebel commander who was wanted in the United States, police said.
A former front commander in Colombia's main leftist rebel group was sentenced to 27 years in prison Thursday for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States, prosecutors said.
Colombian authorities have proof that high-ranking leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, live in Venezuela, the Colombian government said Thursday.
The Colombian military killed 12 Marxist guerrilla rebels in a gunbattle Sunday in the central state of Tolima, President Alvaro Uribe said on his website.
Colombian TV stations aired proof-of-life videos Monday of five hostages being held by Marxist guerrillas.
Colombian military forces killed 18 leftist guerrillas Friday in two operations, the National Defense Ministry said.
Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday will hold marches around the country and in cities around the world in protest against his hard-line tactics.
Police officers and soldiers held captive by the leftist guerrilla group known as FARC pleaded to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to negotiate their release in a series of nine proof-of-life videos released Monday.
Colombian Marxist guerrillas have released a video showing that two hostages are alive and seemingly well.
Shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons purchased by Venezuela have ended up in the hands of guerrillas, Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos said.
At the request of the Colombian government, Interpol, an international police agency, has issued an alert for the arrest of a Mexican student linked to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Marxist rebels killed seven police officers in a roadside ambush in southwestern Colombia, officials said.
The Colombian Marxist guerrilla group FARC announced Thursday it is releasing a soldier it has held hostage for more than 10 years, a Colombian senator who has brokered previous releases said on her Web page.
Authorities in Ecuador said they have captured a top guerrilla leader belonging to the Marxist FARC group from neighboring Colombia, news outlets reported Wednesday.
Marxist guerrillas admit they recently killed eight Indians whom the rebels accused of collaborating with the Colombian government, media outlets reported Tuesday.
Marxist guerrillas in southwest Colombia are believed to have killed a second group of Indians the rebels accused of helping the government, a state governor said.
Leftist rebels in Colombia release four hostages in an apparent goodwill gesture. CNN's Kaushal Patel reports.
A Colombian soldier and three police officers were released from captivity by leftist guerrillas Sunday night, completing the first stage of a three-step release of hostages.
Leftist rebels release four hostages held nearly two years in the jungles of Colombia.
A Colombian delegation, led by a federal senator, has left for Brazil on the first leg of a multiday journey to obtain the release of six hostages held by the FARC guerrilla group.
Colombian officials are blaming the FARC guerrilla group for an explosion in an upscale Bogota neighborhood Tuesday night that killed two people and wounded 20.
Two guerrillas fled their camp Tuesday deep in the forests of southern Colombia with two kidnap victims that they used in exchange for their freedom, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.
A Colombian rebel group announced plans to release 6 hostages, including former Gov. Alan Jara and former legislator Sigifredo Lopez Tobon, according to a statement from the group on Sunday.
Leftist rebels announced Tuesday they have agreed to exchange letters with a self-appointed group of Colombians, including some prominent public figures, to discuss the possible release of hostages the rebels are holding.
Leftist rebels announced Tuesday they have agreed to exchange letters with a self-appointed group of Colombians, including some prominent public figures, to discuss the possible release of hostages the rebels are holding.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday froze the U.S. assets of eight members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which it has deemed a narco-terrorist organization.
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced Thursday that it arranged for the release Wednesday of eight civilians held for a week by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Robin Meade talks with the three Americans held captive by FARC about their rescue.
Three Americans rescued last week from captivity in the Colombian jungle will return to their homes Saturday, the U.S. Army South said.
Freed hostage Thomas Howes describes 'Enrique', one of the FARC commanders who kept him hostage.
At least two members of the Colombian rebel group FARC were offered money to switch sides and deliver bogus orders as part of last week's rescue of 15 FARC hostages, a source close to Colombian military intelligence told CNN Wednesday.
Former FARC hostages attend a Mass in Bogota in honor of Julian Guevara, who died in 2006 after years in captivity.
The new leader of a rebel group in Colombia proposed peace talks with the government in a message made public Tuesday.
Freed hostage Marc Gonsalves says the rebel group that took him captive are "terrorists."
Government agents posing as rebels tricked a gang of armed desperados into handing over 15 hostages during a rendezvous deep in Colombia's unforgiving jungle.
Colombia's rebel movement may have suffered several blows, but don't tell that to Comandante Alberto and his bitter-enders
Secret agents posing as leftist rebels hoodwinked insurgents and freed 15 hostages from the jungles of Colombia by pretending an "international mission" was on its way to visit the hostages, authorities in Colombia say.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe speaks about the hostage rescue that freed 15 people.
The relatives of three U.S. government contractors who were rescued in Colombia rejoiced as the men boarded a plane home Wednesday.
Colombia's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has released a video of an abducted congressman as proof the politician is alive.
Relatives and friends of the hundreds of men and women held hostage in the jungles of Colombia held out hope for their release now that the leader of the country's largest leftist guerilla group is dead.
A Colombian prosecutor called Thursday for an investigation into 12 people for alleged ties to a leftist rebel group.
The commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's Force 47 told reporters in Bogota Monday -- a day after surrendering -- that "the solution is not through war. There must be dialogue."
A senior rebel leader in Colombia surrendered Sunday -- the latest major blow for insurgents who have waged war against the Colombian state for 40 years.
Colombia did not alter computer files that it claims show Venezuelan support for a leftist rebel group, the international police organization Interpol said Thursday.
On the border between Ecuador and Colombia, FARC rebels -- and the government forces chasing them -- have created the continent's most serious security crisis
The security minister in Costa Rica stepped down Sunday after alluding to possible links between a Colombian rebel group and Costa Rican politicians.
Four former Colombian lawmakers arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday after being released by the guerilla group that had held them captive in the jungle for nearly six years.
The same leftist rebel group that released two long-held hostages three days ago has kidnapped six tourists at a remote beach on Colombia's Pacific coast, a spokeswoman for the Colombian navy said Monday.
FARC rebels in Colombia release two female politicians held hostage for six years. CNN's Karl Penhaul reports.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Friday for Europe to remove from its list of terrorist organizations two Colombian groups -- including FARC, the group that freed two hostages Thursday in a mission Chavez organized.
Castigated for losing track of their own prisoners, leftist rebels release two long-held women politicians -- which could be a boost for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
The Colombian government has seized five videotapes from suspected members of a rebel group that show a number of hostages, including Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt and three American contractors, a government statement said Thursday.
A key rebel commander and fugitive from a U.S. drug trafficking indictment was killed over the weekend in an air attack on a guerrilla encampment, the Colombian military said Monday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will negotiate on behalf of the Colombian government with leftist rebels holding dozens of hostages, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced Friday.
Nine people, including four children, were shot and killed at a farm in southern Colombia where the owner had been threatened by guerrillas over extortion payments, police said.
Colombia has begun releasing prisoners from its largest Marxist rebel group, beginning with its "foreign minister," Rodrigo Granda, in hopes of getting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to reciprocate, authorities said Wednesday.
A Colombian police officer says he walked for 17 days in the Amazon jungle to escape his captors, the country's revolutionary militia group.
Leftist rebel forces ambushed a military patrol in southern Colombia at dawn Tuesday, killing two dozen members, said a Colombian military spokesman.
At least 17 Colombian soldiers have been killed in a guerrilla ambush in the country's oil-rich northeast region, the military said.
Leftist rebels have killed 17 Colombian soldiers, including an army officer, during a firefight in the northern province of Uraba, the nation's top military commander said.
U.S. President George W. Bush was targeted for assassination by Marxist rebels this week when he visited the city of Cartagena, a Colombian official said Saturday.
Three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army who were accused of training Colombian rebels in terrorist tactics have been set free from a Bogota prison, a spokesman at the Chief Prosecutor's Office said.
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