By Joshua Collins Nearly 100 underground tunnels, running a combined length of more than 84 kilometers, or 52 miles, ...

Thousands of former military personnel are hired for large sums to fight in wars or to serve as private security abroad. The ...

Since Colombia became independent in 1819 ... General Rojas Pinilla kicked both parties out of power and ended the war for a year. But many ex-guerrillas, among them criminals freed when the ...

“War damages everything it touches, it damages the attacked ones and those who are attacked,” he added. De Roux then proposed a change to the “security system” in force in Colombia.

Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP announced that forensic experts found human remans in a waste dump in the west of Medellin. The exhumation of at least two victims of forced displacement was ...

Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group has announced a unilateral truce to last until Jan. 3, the first since the previous ceasefire broke down in August ...

Violations of international humanitarian law —the laws of war— are not abstract concepts in Colombia, but the grim material of everyday life. War bursts into the daily activities of a farm ...

CAMPAIGNING anti-poverty charity War on Want warned yesterday of a “human rights crisis” in Colombia, where striking farmworkers have been attacked and murdered. The strike organised by the Agrarian, ...