The National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas are targeting community leaders and former members of a separate rebel group in the northeastern Catatumbo region, Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said on Sunday,

Peace agreement failure between northeast Columbian rebels of the National Liberation Army and former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has led to extreme violence.As per Associated Press,

(Reuters) - Colombian President Gustavo Petro called off peace talks with the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN), on Friday, after accusing the group of committing a war crime in the Catatumbo region. "The dialogue process with this group is suspended, the ELN has no will for peace", Petro said on X.

Terrified residents carrying backpacks and belongings on overladen motorcycles, boats, or crammed onto the backs of open trucks, fled the region over the weekend.

Army said 5,000 soldiers have been sent to Norte de Santander to ‘reinforce security’ amid violence in mountainous cocaine-producing region.

It is the second time in less than a year that Colombian authorities halt peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for recent violence in the northeastern region of Tibu.

Officials in Colombia say about 60 people have been killed in the country’s northeast region following failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army

A fresh outbreak of guerrilla violence amid a faltering peace process in conflict-riddled Colombia has left more than 80 people dead in just over three days, officials reported Sunday.

More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian official said.

Over the weekend, violence in northeastern Colombia, following the suspension of peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN), resulted in over 80 deaths and left another 20 injured. Thousands have been displaced,

The death toll from rebel-related violence in a key drug trafficking region of Colombia has doubled to 60, the government's human rights ombudsman said on Saturday.