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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Colombia blamed Marxist FARC rebels on Sunday for killing at least five Venezuelan soldiers and an oil engineer in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years on the two country&#39;s jungle border.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group proposed a conditional cease-fire with the government yesterday, its biggest step toward peace since Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002.
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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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More than a thousand paramilitary fighters began demobilizing Friday in the remote jungles of Colombia, where the main road is marked by crosses, burned vehicles and blown-up bridges - the scars of a protracted and bitter battle between their right-wing faction and leftist rebels for control of the region's cocaine industry.
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A leader of the mainstream Palestinian group in Lebanon says seven militants fighting the army have laid down arms.
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The United States called on Taliban guerrillas to lay down their arms Thursday, saying Afghans had voted against violence and those who gave up their insurgency would not be punished unless they were guilty of major crimes.
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Colombian rebels will hand over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, including an aide to former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and the woman's young son, according to a statement released Tuesday.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accuses Farc rebels of killing politicians they were holding captive last week.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Marxist rebels killed 17  Colombian soldiers in a battle in the jungles of northern  Colombia on Wednesday in the deadliest attack on the armed  forces in years, the army said.
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Nations asked to fund disarmament last week said Colombia must stiffen penalties for ex-fighters.
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Colombia has accused Venezuela of sheltering a Colombian rebel leader on its territory and said other Colombian terrorists and rebel camps are in the neighboring country.
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BOGOTA -- Hundreds of far-right Colombian paramilitaries turned in their guns yesterday at the same time as a top human rights group said that the demobilization threatened to let killers go unpunished.
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At least 14 Colombian marines die in an attack on a military outpost by Farc rebels, the navy says.
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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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Fighters loyal to militant cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have agreed to lay down their arms their Baghdad stronghold, Sadr City, in a deal to end months of clashes with US troops.
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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.