Sources: BBC
A Colombian judge orders president Abelardo de la Espriella's government to suspend airstrikes on guerrilla camps in the Guaviare Department when intelligence indicated that minors may be present, after recent bombings killed at least three teenagers. 2026-09-3
The Colombian government and FARC rebels sign a new peace deal after the failure of the original one. 2016-11-24
Colombian government and FARC representatives meet in Havana, and President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with presidential predecessors Álvaro Uribe, the accord opposition leader, and Andrés Pastrana Arango, to continue negotiations to end the 52-year war that has killed around a quarter of a million people. 2016-10-4
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds a meeting with leaders of FARC in a sign of encouragement in ending Colombia's half-century old conflict. 2016-03-22
17 government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca. 2013-07-20
FARC rebels kill 12 Colombian soldiers and wound four more in an ambush near the Colombian border with Venezuela. 2012-05-21
Russian businessman Victor Bout is sentenced to 25 years in prison for smuggling weapons to the Colombian FARC guerilla movement. 2012-04-5
Colombian military forces raid a FARC rebel hideout in the province of Caquetá, freeing police sergeant Luis Alberto Erazu, who had been held hostage by FARC for 12 years. Four other hostages are killed by the rebels during the raid. 2011-11-26
Twenty-three oil workers are kidnapped in eastern Colombia with FARC rebels the most likely suspects. 2011-03-7
Spain requests an explanation from Venezuela concerning allegations that it helped terrorist groups Euskadi Ta Askatasuna and FARC plot to kill Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and other Colombian personalities in Spanish soil. 2010-03-1