Colombia’s president has issued a decree giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups.

With 80 people killed and 40,000 displaced by violence wrought by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) militia's fight with rival armed groups over drug trafficking territory in northeastern Colombia,

Colombia’s government is offering a roughly $700,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of four leaders of a rebel group behind the deadly violence affecting a coca-growing

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro made a further outreach to Venezuela on Saturday, voicing hope the neighbors can work "together" to confront deadly guerrilla violence.

Colombia is struggling to contain violence in the mountainous northeastern Catatumbo region, where a 5,800-strong ELN has targeted rival armed groups and their alleged sympathizers

Inhabitants of the Colombian town of Tibu, on the northern border with Venezuela, have fled following a wave of violence that has left at least 80 people dead in clashes between two armed groups in the last week.

Both the ELN and FARC-EMC have long fought for control over this drug-rich area, but recent violence marks a significant escalation.

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.

Colombia called on neighboring Venezuela Thursday to help tackle guerrillas blamed for a week of bloody violence that has displaced 40,000 people in the lawless border region.

More than 8,000 civilians fled the violence, with many seeking shelter in government facilities or hiding in the mountains.

At least 80 people are dead and more than 18,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela.

After a day of drama, President Donald Trump paused steep retaliatory tariffs that he had threatened against Colombia after the South American nation agreed to accept military deportation flights from the U.S.