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BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Inside a cavernous hangar next to Bogotá's international airport, military officers are testing a new weapon: a Colombian-made drone that can carry up to 18 pounds of explosives.

"The only thing I ask for is quiet," the heavily armed and masked Colombian troop commander whispers. "They have drones, it's dangerous," he says, before waving us forward as we began a night mission ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government is urgently working with Congress on a law that would lay out terms of surrender for crime gangs such as the Gulf Clan, President Juan Manuel Santos said on ...

BOGOTA, Colombia—Almost a decade ago, the most powerful rebel group Latin America had ever seen agreed to lay down its weapons and end its fight to overthrow the Colombian state. The accord with ...

BOGOTA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Colombia and the Clan del Golfo crime gang have agreed at negotiations in Qatar that combatants from the group will gradually gather in three defined areas from March 1, part ...