Sources: BBC
Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace sentences seven former FARC leaders, including ex-commander Timoleón Jiménez, to up to eight years of reparations work for their role in kidnappings. 2025-09-16
Rebel forces confirm that former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia leader Jesús Santrich has been killed in a cross-border operation in Zulia, Venezuela, by the National Army of Colombia. Five others were also killed in the operation on May 17. Santrich's rebel group says that the troops also cut off his little finger before withdrawing back across the border. Santrich was wanted by the United States on charges of drug trafficking. 2021-05-19
The Government of Ecuador says that the three Ecuadorian journalists kidnapped by rebel members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on 26 March have been murdered. President Lenín Moreno orders military operations on the Colombian border to catch the murderers, offering a reward of US$100,000. 2018-04-13
Colombia's president Juan Manuel Santos announces that he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery on Wednesday. He said his condition is unlikely to derail the upcoming peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). 2012-10-1
Romeo Langlois, a freelance journalist from France 24 who was abducted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on April 28, is released by FARC in southern Colombia. 2012-05-30
Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC announces that it has abandoned kidnapping and will soon release its last remaining captives. 2012-02-26
Alfonso Cano, the head of the Colombian militant organisation FARC, is reportedly killed in a raid by the Colombian Army. 2011-11-4
Army forces in Colombia kill 10 FARC rebels in western Chocó department. 2011-03-24
President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos describes the killing of Mono Jojoy as the "beginning of the end" for the Farc organization. 2010-09-27
At least 18 FARC rebels are killed while celebrating the New Year in an air raid by the Colombian Air Force in the south of the country. 2010-01-1