Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said he is contemplating a new round of peace talks with the nation's largest remaining ...

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 ...

People displaced by violence in towns across the Catatumbo region, where rebels of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, have been clashing with former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...

However, the demand is considerable as the ELN partially depends on kidnapping and extortion, two practices the government demands an end to, for the financing of its armies. This means that if the ...

The announcement comes a day after Pastrana said he was suspending talks with the leftist group, known as ELN. He said the group has no desire for peace. The ELN statement said the group will wait ...

National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels are demanding a $3 million ransom from his employers, the Texas oil firm Weatherford International. Negotiations are going nowhere and there is no end in ...

The ELN claims it is “convinced” of the “right [of the international ... reiterating President Santos’ desire to engage the rebels.

Colombia's Office of the Attorney General has confirmed it would lift all arrest warrants on National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, following President Gustavo Petro's instructions. The head of ...

which includes seeking peace through dialogue with the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels. Petro said this weekend in front of the new military high command, that troops must prepare to be an ...

More than 1,000 members of the ELN alone are operating in Venezuela, Colombia's then-Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo told the Organization of American States in 2019. The rebels have ...

The leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels – already in peace negotiations with the government – are the largest of the armed groups. Of the ELN’s 5,850 members, 2,900 are combatants ...