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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.
The Colombian government has extended a ceasefire with rebel group FARC-EMC as Bogotá looks to curb violence in rural parts of the South American nation.
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 ...
Colombia has the second most displaced people in the world — behind only Syria.
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 ...
The rebel group has kidnapped thousands during Colombia's bloody and decades old conflict with the leftist guerilla.
Colombia's government expects to begin talks within weeks with two dissident groups founded by former FARC rebels who reject that group's 2016 peace deal, the country's top peace official said.
Colombia’s government and the FARC rebel group signed a peace accord Saturday after years of negotiations and half a century of conflict.
HAVANA --"Transcendental," "immense," "historic": these were the words used by the main protagonists in the signing of a landmark accord by the Colombian government and FARC rebels Thursday that ...
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.
The FARC engage in criminal activities to fund their struggle to overthrow the state. There is very little difference between the way they and the BACRIM raise money. The only difference is where the ...