Nine soldiers in Colombia were killed in a military base by the rebel group National Liberation Army amid shaky peace talks between the guerillas and the government.
The government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN), the largest remaining guerrilla group in the South American country, resumed peace talks on Monday.
The government of Colombia announced that it will restart peace talks with the armed rebel group National Liberation Army (ELN) that was suspended in 2018.
Colombia will be conducting peace talks with the ELN rebel group, and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said his government will act as a "guarantor" between the two sides.
Colombia's navy said that in the eighth phase of a multinational naval operation against drug trafficking organized by authorities across Europe and the Americas, more than 145 tonnes of cocaine had been seized.
The National Liberation Army, Colombia’s second largest leftist group, has attacked the Cano-Limon Covenas pipeline. The ELN’s two bomb attacks have suspended the pipeline's operations.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed UN envoy Jean Arnault of France to head the organization’s political mission in Colombia. It will monitor and verify a future peace deal between the Colombian government and the FARC.