Colombian Paramilitaries to Disband 3,000 Fighters
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest right-wing  paramilitary group said on Thursday it would disband 3,000 of  its fighters before the end of the year, in what the group  called a good faith gesture as it pursues peace talks with the  government.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia's  largest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at a  Bogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday on  cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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Far-right paramilitary groups pulled out of a peace process with the Colombian government late Wednesday following a decision by President Alvaro Uribe's administration to transfer jailed militia leaders to a maximum security prison.
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An international rescue mission to free three hostages held by Colombian rebels broke down yesterday amid accusations of lying and bad faith
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Colombia on Thursday said it would pardon 23 jailed rebels to encourage Marxist guerrillas to free 72 hostages, including three Americans.
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A Colombian court on Thursday sentenced three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to 17 years in prison and fined them a total of 426,000 US dollars for training Colombian rebels.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Thursday said it  would pardon 23 jailed rebels to encourage Marxist guerrillas  to free 72 hostages, including three Americans.
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BOGOTA -- Police arrested three men and broke up a plot to attack US military officers who train Colombian police and soldiers in a popular weekend getaway, the US Embassy said yesterday. The suspects were arrested Saturday in the central city of Melgar, home to the Tolemaida military base, which houses a training center for anti drug agents. The men ...
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Colombian police said on Tuesday they caught three men at a resort near Bogota with explosives and a photograph of a diplomatic vehicle a day after the U.S. Embassy warned its citizens away from the town due to a threat of guerrilla violence.
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Leftist rebels have announced they will liberate three politicians held hostages for more than six years because of health problems, Colombian radio Caracol reported.
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Some 450 rightwing paramilitaries disarm in a Colombian football stadium as part of the peace process.
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The leader of an armed group which took over a police station in a southern Peruvian town three days ago and demanded the president's resignation made a fresh promise on Monday to surrender.
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Three Irishmen convicted of training rebels in Colombia have fled the country, its attorney general says.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group proposed a conditional cease-fire with the government on Monday, its most significant step toward peace since conservative Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002.
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More than 1,400 Colombian paramilitaries hand over their weapons to the country's government.
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Spain will pull its 500 troops out of Afghanistan after the Afghan elections, Defense Minister Jose Bono told local media on Monday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia said on Friday a  senior Marxist guerrilla leader may avoid extradition to the  United States if his rebel group frees 63 hostages, including  three Americans and one German.