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US deploys troops to Ecuador for anti-drugs operation
Dec 17, 2025 (AFP)
The deployment comes amid a deepening standoff between the United States and Latin American oil producer Venezuela, whose leader Washington accuses of drug traf...
US strikes on three vessels in eastern Pacific kill eight: US military
Dec 16, 2025 (AFP)
"Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking," US ...
Colombia's Petro orders 'attack' on ELN guerilla group after its threats
Dec 14, 2025 (AFP)
The ELN -- or National Liberation Army -- had called on Friday for a 72-hour lockdown in areas it controlled beginning on Sunday morning, saying it would be car...
HRW urges US allies to condemn strikes on alleged drug boats
Dec 09, 2025 (AFP)
More than 80 people have been killed in the Trump administration's months-long campaign against alleged drug traffickers. US authorities have not provided speci...
US residents get free entry to national parks on Trump's birthday
Dec 08, 2025 (AFP)
But Americans will lose the current privilege of doing the same on two national days commemorating civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr and the end of slaver...
Pentagon chief non-committal on releasing video of second drug-boat strike
Dec 06, 2025 (AFP)
The White House early this week confirmed that a US admiral under Hegseth's authority ordered the deadly "double-tap" strike against the survivors, reports of w...
Colombia and paramilitary drug gang vow further peace talks in Doha
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
The Clan del Golfo, which has origins in right-wing paramilitary organisations and calls itself the Gaitanista Army of Colombia, is responsible for shipping hun...
New US strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific kills four
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump's administration have especially come under fire over an incident in early September in which US force...
Top lawmaker says US forces killed 'shipwrecked sailors'; Hegseth says US has 'only just begun'
Dec 04, 2025 (AFP)
The September 2 incident -- the first in a series of strikes targeting purported narcotics-smuggling vessels that have left more than 80 people dead -- has spar...
Family of Colombian killed in boat strike takes US to rights body
Dec 03, 2025 (AFP)
The family of 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza Medina, killed on September 15, reject assertions there were drugs on the vessel targeted in Washington's anti-narc...
Pentagon chief says US has 'only just begun' striking alleged drug boats
Dec 02, 2025 (AFP)
Hegseth and President Donald Trump's administration have come under fire particularly over an incident in which US forces launched a follow-up strike on the wre...
US killed survivors of strike on alleged drug boat: reports
Nov 29, 2025 (AFP)
Prior to the operation, the troops had been given a directive from US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to kill everyone on board, the Washington Post and CNN both...
Pentagon boss to visit Dominican Republic amid US-Venezuela row
Nov 26, 2025 (AFP)
The Pentagon confirmed the visit, which comes as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on his Venezuelan counterpart and arch-foe Nicolas Maduro, accused by ...
Thailand suspends prison boss over alleged privileges for Chinese inmates
Nov 25, 2025 (AFP)
The scandal erupted last week after local media reported two Chinese women were allowed into the Bangkok Remand Prison to visit inmates, allegedly to provide se...
Venezuela says US terrorist designation a 'ridiculous lie'
Nov 25, 2025 (AFP)
A major US military build-up near Venezuela has led to speculation that President Donald Trump is planning to try to topple Venezuela' Socialist leader Nicolas ...
Petro denies news report of intel breach, blames CIA
Nov 25, 2025 (AFP)
The Caracol network on Sunday published chats and documents involving General Juan Manuel Huertas and National Intelligence Directorate official Wilmar Mejia in...
Young Colombian mourns kidnapped teen brother killed by military
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
The boy died after three months in captivity, having been taken from his school in the Amazon by guerrillas and other criminal groups fighting Colombia's leftis...
15 abducted children among dead from Colombian military strikes
Nov 18, 2025 (AFP)
President Gustavo Petro reported the deaths of five children in two recent military bombings, adding to seven reported by the office of Colombia's human rights ...
U.S. to designate Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles as terrorist organization
Nov 17, 2025 (UPI)
The State Department announced Sunday that it "intends" to designate Cartel de los Soles. The designation will go into effect Nov. 24. It claimed, without provi...
12 abducted children among dead from Colombian military strikes
Nov 17, 2025 (AFP)
President Gustavo Petro reported the deaths of five children in two recent military bombings, adding to seven reported by the office of Colombia's human rights ...
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