16 peasants are killed in Colombia
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BOGOTA -- Sixteen peasants, including women and children, were killed Friday in a remote area in the lawless eastern province of Arauca, police said yesterday. Marxist rebels were suspected.
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A top official in Colombia says the country&#39;s largest Marxist rebel group targeted President Bush for assassination when he visited Cartagena this past week.
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Miguel Arroyave, chief of a faction of the paramilitary Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC),has been killed in an ambush in the country&#39;s central-south province of Meta, authorities said Monday.
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Two candidates in Sunday's regional polls in Colombia are shot dead, bringing the number killed to at least 21.
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Suspected rebels ambushed an army patrol, exploded a car bomb in the capital and another bomb in Colombia's southwest Monday, killing at least 18 people in a wave of attacks a week before the presidential inauguration.
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By FRANK BAJAK  BOGOTA, Colombia - She was a plainspoken but determined woman, those who knew her said, seeking justice for hundreds of fellow peasants whose lands were stolen by right-wing militias during a more than decade-long reign of terror.
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Sixteen Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with Nepalese security forces Thursday in the western district of Dailekh, Royal Nepal Army spokesman Deepak Gurung has told CNN.
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Twenty Colombian soldiers are killed in a helicopter crash in the south-west of the country.
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GAUHATI -- Fifteen police officers were killed yesterday when suspected rebels ambushed their patrol , officials said. Sixty armed officers in the Bishenpur District were traveling in six vehicles when rebels fired on them. The rebels fled into a forest.
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A patrol of the Venezuelan armed forces were ambushed by presumed Colombian guerrillas in the border zone with Colombia, leaving seven dead, local press reported Saturday.
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Between 21 and 35 right-wing paramilitaries were killed in combat with the Colombian army, and Marxist rebels killed the mayor of a small town, authorities said Saturday.
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Rebels killed a mayor and a former town council member after seizing them at a roadblock in eastern Colombia as they headed to a meeting on how to confront violence in the area, authorities said Saturday.
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Separatist Kurdish rebels killed 16 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 in an ambush Sunday in the mountainous southeast of the country, security sources said.
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A dump truck packed with coffee pickers skidded off a road in the Mexican state of Puebla and plunged into a shallow ravine, killing at least 16 people, a Red Cross official said on Monday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Heavy fighting between Colombian troops and left-wing guerrillas killed 11 rebels and three soldiers in a remote jungle area in the south of the country, the armed forces said on Tuesday.
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The boss of Colombia's biggest remaining cocaine cartel was shot dead in neighboring Venezuela in an apparent settling of scores among drug gangs, authorities said on Friday.
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A Venezuelan military plane crashed in a mountainous region near Caracas on Friday, killing 16 poeple, including high-ranking officers, a top government official said.