A Colombian airstrike over the weekend killed a high-ranking rebel commander who was wanted in the United States, police said. Sixto Antonio Cabana Guillen was among the more than two dozen guerrillas killed in a Colombian air force bombing operation...

Colombia’s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, moved on Tuesday to repair diplomatic relations after ties had sharply deteriorated in recent weeks over assertions by Colombia’s government that Colombian...

Venezuela and Colombia are the original odd-couple of Hemispheric diplomacy. With the former run by a rambunctious socialist autocrat and the latter by a U.S.-aligned hard-right hawk, the two countries have been on a collision course for years. The...

Fathers’ Day came early this year for two young boys who met their dad for the first time today after Colombia’s army rescued him from a jungle camp where he had been held by leftist rebels for nearly 12 years. Leonardo, 12, and Sebastian,...

Colombian presidential frontrunner Antanas Mockus acknowledged Thursday that he has taken precautions after receiving death threats via social-networking site Facebook, but he said they will not halt his candidacy and that he has “full confidence”...

A Colombian general and five other members of its military have died in a helicopter collision at a base in the nation’s southwest. A statement posted on the army’s website says five people were also injured when a military and a civilian...

Leftist FARC rebels have provided the coordinates for the handover of two soldiers and the body of a police officer who died in captivity, Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba said Thursday. In a press conference, the opposition lawmaker who has brokered...

A criminal court judge was murdered outside the building where he lived in Bogota by gunmen riding a motorcycle, Colombian police said. Jose Fernando Patiño was shot three times Monday outside the building in north Bogota and was pronounced dead at...

Drug enforcement agents on Sunday arrested five people, including two wanted for extradition by the United States, suspected of trafficking cocaine and heroin during an operation targeting a criminal organization based in southwestern Colombia,...

Colombia declared raging forest fires to be a national disaster on Thursday and said it will get equipment from the United States to help douse the flames, further strengthening ties between Washington and Bogota.