Sources: Press TV
A w.4 earthquake strikes Chocó Department, Colombia, causing widespread and heavy damage, and leaving at least 288 people dead. 2026-08-10
Colombia's military says it has rescued 39 civilians kidnapped by the National Liberation Army on a highway in Chocó Department, with two soldiers killed during the operation. 2026-07-14
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
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
A car bomb explosion inside a house in San Juan de Arama, Meta Department, Colombia, kills one person. Authorities confirm that the car was going to be used in an attack and the perpetrator was a member of the Estado Mayor Central. 2025-01-22
A landslide in El Carmen de Atrato, Chocó, Colombia, kills 37 people and injures at least 35 others. 2024-01-13
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". 2021-04-1
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
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