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An attack on a military base in southern Colombia killed four civilians, including a two-month-old baby, President Abelardo de la Espriella said Monday, as drug gangs and rebel groups step up violence in response to his government’s new security strategy. The attack occurred Sunday night in Planadas...

Today, the United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia for a further year through resolution 2833 (2026). The decision, unanimously adopted, reaffirms the support that the Security Council, and the United Nations as a whole, has extended...

A Colombian judge on Monday ordered the nation’s government to protect more than 30 historical artifacts that officials removed from exhibits in Bogota’s National Museum last week, as part of an effort by Colombia’s conservative government to change how the nation’s history is told in museums and...

A month before the tenth anniversary of the signing of Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement, the UN Security Council reviewed its implementation under the new Administration of President Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella, who assumed office on 7 August, amid hopes that the gains achieved over the past...

Colombia’s transitional justice system, established to address crimes committed during the country’s decades-long civil conflict, has indicted several former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), formerly the country’s largest rebel group. A group of 10 ex-rebels were charged...

A judge on Monday sentenced in absentia 11 commanders of Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group to prison for recruiting 60 children as young as 8 into their ranks between 2004 and 2018. The commanders of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, were found guilty of recruiting boys and girls between...

At least one person was killed and another 15 injured in a car bomb attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cucuta, the capital of Norte de Santander. According to the National Police, the bomb exploded on Monday evening outside of the police station in Los Patios, a municipality that is part...

Drug gangs and rebel groups in Colombia are increasingly recruiting children and using them to perform potentially lethal tasks that include piloting explosives-laden drones, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Monday. The international watchdog said criminal organizations in the South...

Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro on Monday reiterated claims of fraud in the nation’s June election, which his party lost narrowly to conservative leader Abelardo de la Espriella. In an hourlong presentation to journalists, Petro claimed that results from thousands of tally sheets were...

Far-right lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Colombia’s presidential run-off election, according to an initial ballot count. Abelardo de la Espriella won 49.7 percent of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70 percent, with 99.9 percent of results released...