Colombia’s FARC political party, formed after the guerilla group with the same acronym was disbanded, has announced that it is is changing its name to “Comunes,” or “Commons” in English.

FARC guerrillas agreed to disarm in a 2016 peace deal, and Colombia's government promised to protect them. But in the years since, nearly 200 former FARC rebels have been attacked and killed.

Colombia's savage civil war between the central government and members of the left-wing FARC militia finally came to an end in November 2016 after years of negotiation.

Colombian activist Manuel Rozental explains that the flawed 2016 peace agreement with the FARC rebels was an important step forward, but now FARC dissidents are giving in to the government's push ...

C RITICS OF COLOMBIA’S peace deal with the FARC rebel group, which in 2016 ended a 52-year war with the government, complain that it lets the guerrillas off too easily. The fault, in their view ...

Since the early 1960s, left-wing guerrillas, mainly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and later the National Liberation Army (ELN), have fought the Colombian government and ...

FARC guerrillas and civilians build barracks in the Transitional Standardization Zone in Pondores, La Guajira department, Colombia, on March 31. (Joaquin Sarmiento/ Agence France-Presse via Getty ...

Another, more recent denial of the FARC’s involvement in the drug trade came on March 17, 2013, from Ricardo Gonzalez, alias “Rodrigo Granda,” one of the FARC negotiators in Havana, ... Reuters, ...

Colombia’s government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set to expire this week, as both sides hold peace talks in Bogotá in an effort to reduce violence in rural ...

FARC rebels in Colombia begin releasing child soldiers as part of a peace deal potentially ending the 52-year civil war with the government.

Colombia's FARC Says It Will Halt Kidnappings. February 27, 2012 2:55 PM ET. Eyder Peralta Enlarge this image. Miriam Lasso, sister of police sergeant Cesar Augusto Lasso who was kidnapped by the ...