

Colombia peace court alarmed over killings of former rebels
By MANUEL RUEDA In this Dec. 14, 2018 file photo, a clerk goes over court files at the headquarter of the Special Peace Jurisdiction in...
Associated Press 1
Apr 20, 2021


5,000 Flee as Venezuela Launches Largest Military Campaign in Decades
By Julie Turkewitz Venezuelans near the Arauca River, the border between Venezuela and Colombia, after crossing by boat into Arauquita,...
New York Times 1
Apr 5, 2021


Colombia sees surge in mass killings in 2020: UN
A Colombian woman cries in front her house, which was destroyed during an attack in the village of La Caucana, Antioquia province...
Al Jazeera
Mar 15, 2021


Colombian Official Refuses to Say if Children Were Killed in Attack on Rebels
Youths were present, the defense minister said, calling them “machines of war,” but he would not give the ages of the dead. Reports that...
New York Times 1
Mar 13, 2021


Colombia Seeks Justice for War Atrocities Via New Court
By Julie Turkewitz BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The testimony is searing. “They tied me to a tree,” said one victim of Colombia’s guerrillas. “They...
New York Times 1
Mar 12, 2021


Colombia Seeks Justice for War Atrocities Via New Court
A court in Colombia is exposing atrocities in the country’s long civil war, trying to compile a record all sides can accept, and offering...
New York Times 1
Mar 6, 2021


Colombian army committed 6,400 extrajudicial killings: Court
Killings allegedly presented as combat deaths to boost perception of military gains in conflict against FARC rebels. Colombia’s military...
Al Jazeera
Feb 19, 2021


Colombia Makes ‘Historic’ Decision to Grant Legal Status to 1.7 Million Venezuelan Migrants
President Iván Duque announced Monday that the Venezuelan migrants who fled an economic collapse at home can legally stay in Colombia for...
New York Times 1
Feb 9, 2021


Women Fleeing Venezuela Are Targeted With Sexual Assault As They Cross Into Colombia
Editor's note: This story includes details some readers may find disturbing. At a shelter for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian border...
NPR 1
Jan 30, 2021


Colombia’s JEP indicts former FARC on War Crimes for kidnapping
Eight of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla’s most senior commanders have been formally charged by magistrates...
Richard Emblin | The City Paper
Jan 29, 2021


Colombia’s Peace at Stake in Polarised Election
Colombians head to the polls on 27 May to choose a new president. The frontrunners have starkly different views on peace talks with...
International Crisis Group 1
May 29, 2018


Colombia's Farc has completed disarmament, UN says
Farc rebels in Colombia have handed over all of their personal weapons, completing the transfer of arms a day ahead of a revised...
BBC News
Jun 27, 2017