Sources: BBC
Colombia's Ombudsman's Office confirms that 33 soldiers detained for three days in a village in Guaviare after clashes with dissident FARC fighters have been released following negotiations involving officials and the United Nations. 2025-08-28
Colombian defense minister Pedro Sánchez reports that at least 34 soldiers have been kidnapped by armed civilians in Guaviare after clashes with dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia that killed eleven fighters, including a commander, on Sunday. 2025-08-26
Two Venezuelan Army troops are killed and nine others are wounded by a land mine, near the border with Colombia, during operations against FARC dissidents and other "irregular armed groups". [https:--www.reuters.com-article-us-colombia-venezuela-venezuela-says-two-soldiers-killed-by-land-mine-near-colombia-border-idUSKBN2BP05P?il=0 (Reuters)]2021 Apure clashes2021-04-1
Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano accuses FARC splinter group Dagoberto Ramos Mobile Column of being responsible for yesterday's car bombing in Corinto, Cauca Department, that injured 43 people, eleven of whom were public officials. 2021-03-27
Thousands of protestors take to the streets in Colombia demanding the resignation of President Iván Duque Márquez. The protests were instigated over controversial tax and labor reforms proposed by Congress, murders of indigenous leaders, and the government’s failure to implement the FARC peace deal. 2019-11-21
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
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
The FARC organisation releases the first of five hostages promised this week as a gesture of peace to the government in Colombia. 2011-02-10
Colombia claims it has killed a senior Farc rebel leader and 25 others. 2010-09-20