Colombia's Militia Peace Deal in Crisis
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Colombia&#039;s peace process with far-right paramilitaries faced uncertainty Friday after the country&#039;s constitutional court rejected key provisions of the deal that human rights groups had criticized as too lenient.
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A Colombian guerrilla released from prison to help broker a deal to free rebel hostages could play a role in verifying troops have been pulled back from any safe haven set up for talks, guerrilla commanders said.
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TIBU, Colombia  - The head of Colombia&#39;s right-wing paramilitary armies asked forgiveness from the United States and from victims in his country&#39;s civil war during a ceremony to demobilize 1,425 fighters.
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Bogota, Colombia - The leader of a paramilitary faction involved in peace talks with the government may be among five paramilitary members killed in an ambush on Monday, authorities said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's far-right  paramilitaries said on Tuesday they will return to peace talks,  despite the death of one of their chief negotiators, who police  said was gunned down by his own men over the weekend.
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BAGHDAD, August 27  - The hastily reached peace deal to defuse the crisis in Najaf is in fact a &quot;doomed truce&quot; as it left some very serious loose ends pertaining to the crisis and the situation in Iraq in general, analysts and observers
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The government reached an agreement with a renegade general to end an insurgency that has  threatened to unravel the countryâs new democratically elected government.
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Militias operating outside the legal armed forces of north and south Sudan pose a major threat to a peace deal that ended 21 years of civil war in Africa's biggest country.
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TURBO, Colombia : Some 450 Colombian paramilitaries handed over weapons, the first of at least 3,000 right-wing fighters due to surrender their arms as an initial gesture in a peace deal.
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Colombia's main rebel group on Monday criticized a government proposal to swap jailed guerrillas for kidnapped politicians, soldiers and three American contractors, saying any deal should allow its freed comrades to return to the rebel ranks.
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More than 1,400 Colombian paramilitaries hand over their weapons to the country's government.
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A Colombian businessman kidnapped by leftist rebels died in a military rescue attempt on Thursday, illustrating the dilemma the government faces over thousands of hostages languishing in secret guerrilla jails.
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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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A Venezuelan-led mission to rescue three hostages, including a 3-year old boy, from leftist rebels in Colombia's jungles fell apart Monday as the guerrillas accused Colombia's military of sabotaging the promised handoff.
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Colombia&#39;s main rebel group on Monday criticized a government proposal to swap jailed guerrillas for kidnapped politicians, soldiers and three American contractors, saying
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The United Nations will suspend its mediation efforts between the Colombian government and Marxist rebels after two years of talks that have failed to resolve the country's 40-year conflict, U.N. officials said on Monday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A mystery over whether a  captured top Colombian Marxist rebel was arrested in Colombia  or kidnapped from neighboring Venezuela is turning into a  political hot potato for leftist Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez.