More than 32,000 people have fled to towns in northeast Colombia as they attempt to escape a sharp rise in fighting between militant factions, according to the country’s ombudsman. Iris Marín ...

The Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences has already received 41 bodies, including a 19-month-old baby and two teenagers aged 14 and 16, victims of violence between guerrillas ...

The clashes in Catatumbo are a stark departure from the hope that swept across parts of Colombia less than a decade ago, when the country signed a peace deal with its largest rebel group ...

Colombian special forces have been deployed into territory controlled by armed groups in a bid to stem an outbreak of hostilities among the rebels. Late on Tuesday, government troops moved into ...

More than 80 people have been killed in just three days in northeast Colombia following failed ... The ELN launched an assault in the northeastern Catatumbo region last Thursday on a rival group ...

The Colombian government's human rights ombudsman said on Saturday the death toll from violence in the Catatumbo region had risen to 60, up from a previous tally of 30 from attacks by the leftist ...

More than 32,000 people have fled the northern Colombian region of Catatumbo where two rival ... factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). One official government agency ...