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Colombia suspends peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) insurgent group after the ELN detonated explosives on a military base, killing two soldiers and wounding more than two dozen others.
2024-09-19

Nine people are killed and five others are injured in clashes between FARC dissidents and the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Arauca, Colombia. It occurs as the ELN concludes a fourth round of peace talks with the government.
2023-09-4

Colombia and the National Liberation Army begin a six-month ceasefire aimed at creating peace between both sides.
2023-08-3

ELN rebels launch homemade mortar shells at a military base in El Carmen, Norte de Santander, Colombia, killing nine soldiers and injuring nine others.
2023-03-29

Clashes between the revolutionary far-left armed groups ELN and FARC dissidents in Arauca Department leave 23 people dead near Colombia’s border with Venezuela.
2022-01-3

36 people are injured in a car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Colombia. The Colombian government suspects possible self-attribution for the attack to the National Liberation Army.
2021-06-15

Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez unilaterally blames the National Liberation Army for the 2019 Bogotá car bombing, and suspends ongoing peace talks with the group, requesting that the Cuban government arrest the ten guerrilla group members leading the negotiations in Havana.
2019-01-18

A bus in Fundación, department of Magdalena, Colombia, ignites while transporting children from a religious service, killing 31 children.
2014-05-18

Alfonso Cano, the head of the Colombian militant organisation FARC, is reportedly killed in a raid by the Colombian Army.
2011-11-4

Colombia takes Venezuela to the Organisation of American States over claims that the latter tolerates training camps for left-wing guerrillas, particularly FARC and ELN within its borders.
2010-07-18