Colombian fighters lay down arms
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Some 450 rightwing paramilitaries disarm in a Colombian football stadium as part of the peace process.
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Rebels firing homemade rockets attacked a military post in southwestern Colombia on Tuesday, killing at least 14 soldiers and wounding about 25, the navy said, describing the bloodiest rebel attack in two years.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels on Wednesdaydenied government accusations they plotted to kill PresidentBush during a visit to the port of Cartagena last week.
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Left-wing Farc rebels in Colombia have killed 17 soldiers in an ambush the north-east of the country, the army says.
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Colombian rebels on Wednesday provided a pickup location for two hostages they have held for years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, and the Colombian government gave him the green light to launch a rescue mission.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A delicate mission to free three hostages held by Colombian guerrillas appeared to collapse on Monday as the government and rebel leaders accused each other of trying to kill the deal.
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TIBU, Colombia -- After nearly 10 years of fighting anti-government rebels, Julio Cesar Arce strode onto a muddy field one recent day and joined 1,400 fellow paramilitary fighters in a ceremony marking the largest voluntary disarmament in his country's violent history.
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Jair Diaz is one of the brave ones. After leftist rebels gunned down two city councilmen, most other politicians fled this town in the shadow of Colombia's rebel-controlled southern jungles.
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Leftist Colombian rebels have dragged out efforts at recovering the bodies of 11 hostages killed in June and may be using the safe haven established for the search to regroup and plan attacks, the government said on Friday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Col. Hern?n Mej?a was among Colombia's most decorated officers, a young, strapping warrior with five medals for valor on his chest and a reputation for being a relentless adversary of the Marxist guerrillas who operated in the dusty hamlets of northeast Colombia.
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Colombian government officials said Friday they need support from the international community to assist in the planned demobilization of thousands of right-wing paramilitary fighters.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - 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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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Toughening its stance against right-wing warlords once unofficially allied with the government, Colombia on Friday transferred to prison 59 militia leaders said to have planned a mass escape from a work farm.
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More than 1,400 Colombian paramilitaries hand over their weapons to the country's government.
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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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Left-wing Colombian guerrillas will surrender the bodies of 11 kidnapped local lawmakers over the weekend, President Alvaro Uribe said on Thursday, after two months of bitter speculation over how the men were killed.
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Two Venezuelan helicopters and their crews waited in central Colombia Saturday morning for directions as to where in the jungle to fly to pick up three hostages being freed by leftist rebels.