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Drug gangs and rebel groups in Colombia are increasingly recruiting children and using them to perform potentially lethal tasks that include piloting explosives-laden drones, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Monday. The international watchdog said criminal organizations in the South...

Colombia’s outgoing President Gustavo Petro on Monday reiterated claims of fraud in the nation’s June election, which his party lost narrowly to conservative leader Abelardo de la Espriella. In an hourlong presentation to journalists, Petro claimed that results from thousands of tally sheets were...

Far-right lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Colombia’s presidential run-off election, according to an initial ballot count. Abelardo de la Espriella won 49.7 percent of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70 percent, with 99.9 percent of results released...

Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels are willing to seek peace with whoever wins Sunday's presidential runoff but are also confident they can survive a renewed military offensive promised by the right-wing frontrunner. Colombians will choose a successor to leftist President Gustavo Petro...

Colombia has just become the first Latin American country to approve nationwide legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, or FGM. Recognized by the World Health Organization as a human rights violation, female genital mutilation is defined as the full or partial removal of genitalia for non...

The president of Colombia's legislative Commission of Investigation and ​Accusation, Gloria Arizabaleta, has proposed suspending President ‌Gustavo Petro from his duties until June 21, according to a document published Wednesday. Arizabaleta's motion is tied to ​a probe into Petro's alleged...

A far-right lawyer and Donald Trump admirer will go head-to-head against leftwing senator Iván Cepeda in the race to be Colombia’s next president after he won a surprise victory in the first round of voting. De la Espriella advocates ending Petro’s “total peace” policy of negotiating the dismantling...

At least 52 guerrilla fighters have been killed in clashes between two rival armed groups vying for territorial control of a strategic cocaine production and trafficking region in southeast Colombia, a faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) involved in the fighting has said...

Colombian security forces Friday flooded into the southwestern municipality of Silvia following a violent territorial dispute between two Indigenous groups the day before that left at least seven people dead and more than 100 injured. The army said on social media that more than 500 soldiers, along...

The impact of armed conflict on civilians in Colombia over the past year has been the worst in a decade as the country’s security situation deteriorates, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday in an annual report. The humanitarian group said the number of people displaced as...