The Colombian border village of Tres Bocas has become a ghost town as residents flee to neighboring Venezuela to escape a new ...

Social movements and community organizations demand peace as violence breaks out in the northeastern region of Colombia.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Thursday that he has been in contact with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to implement an action plan to prevent armed groups from crossing the border, ...

Colombia’s government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation’s largest rebel group.

The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers.

Where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, lightning strikes up to 300 times a year for as many as 9 hours a night. "Catatumbo Lightning," also known as the Maracaibo Beacon, holds ...

The children of northeastern Colombia have a message for guerrillas blamed for the country's worst violence in over a decade ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a ...

Some families also fled into Venezuela, arriving by river or on motorbikes and in cars ... extortion and illegal gold mining. In Catatumbo, ELN fighters went door to door with death lists, murdering ...

Thousands of people have fled a fresh outbreak of guerrilla violence in Colombia's northeastern Catatumbo ... groups cross the Tarra River, which divides Colombia and Venezuela, in Tibu, Colombia ...