Norte de Santander is one of Colombia's border provinces with Venezuela. The capital Cucuta relies largely on binational trade.

Severe cracks appeared within the Popular Liberation Army (Ejército Popular de Liberación – EPL) in May. In a written statement to allies in Venezuela, the EPL announced that its commanders along the ...

A police officer stands guard at a cordoned-off area after a police station was attacked with explosives in Mondomo, Santander de Quilichao municipality, Cauca department, Colombia, on April 17, 2025.

Arauca, Cauca (excluding Popayán), and Norte de Santander departments in Colombia; The Colombia-Venezuela border region. "Violent crime, like murder, assault, and robbery, is common in many areas ...

An independent reporter, Herrera has always worked in this region, the Norte de Santander department. His beat includes coverage of robberies, extortions, kidnappings, corruption, drug trafficking ...

Megateo controlled coca crops, drug laboratories and trafficking routes across a large swath of Colombia’s northeastern Norte de Santander department. Pijarbey ran a drug trafficking group primarily ...

UN experts urged the Colombian government on Thursday to protect its civilians and called on the non-state armed groups to cease their attacks against the civilians, after the escalation of the ...

The Department emphasized warnings for the Arauca, Cauca (excluding Popayán), and Norte de Santander departments and the Colombia-Venezuela border region.

The Tibú municipality in Norte de Santander, on the Venezuela border, has the highest level of coca cultivation of all of Colombia's municipalities - 22,000 hectares.