Colombian officials say that a military cargo plane with 128 people on board, most of them soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off Monday in southwestern Colombia.

By Luis Jaime Acosta, Iñigo Alexander and Sarah Morland BOGOTA, March 23 (Reuters) - A Colombian military plane crashed in a takeoff disaster on Monday, killing 66 people as rescuers shuttled dozens of survivors to nearby hospitals and searched for four who were still missing,

Colombia has held a ceremony to honor 69 security force members killed in a military plane crash earlier this week.

President Daniel Noboa said on X that his government "is fighting narco terrorism in all its forms" and "bombing places that serve as hideouts for those groups, of which many are Colombian," but only within Ecuadorian territory.

Colombia opens World Cup play in Mexico City and then has a playoff match in Guadalajara before playing Portugal in Miami on June 27.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday questioned the use of secondhand planes by the country’s armed forces, as officials investigate the crash

Croatia overcame an early deficit to defeat Colombia 2-1 Thursday at Camping World Stadium, with Igor Matanovic's 42nd-minute header delivering the decisive blow in a frantic first half that produc

Royal Road Minerals Ltd (TSX-V:RYR, OTC:RRDMF) is back drilling in Colombia at a moment of potential political inflexion, with new results from its Güíntar gold-copper-silver project in the Antioquia region confirming a large and growing mineralised system.