Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt may be in France, but her voice has been booming over Colombia’s jungles calling on rebels to turn themselves in.

A rose-laden U.S. cargo plane headed for Miami crashed near the Colombian capital on Monday, killing two people on the ground, local authorities said.

A flower-laden U.S. cargo plane headed for Miami crashed near the Colombian capital on Monday, killing two people on the ground, according to local authorities.

A flower-laden U.S. cargo plane headed for Miami crashed near the Colombian capital on Monday, killing two people on the ground, according to local authorities.

The country’s largest rebel group held more than 700 hostages throughout the vast jungle, and Santos knew that the insurgents would have the advantage in the face...

Freed after years as rebel-held hostages, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and four Colombian police officers sent radio messages of hope on Sunday to...

Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe pledged closer ties with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez on Saturday after months of on-and-off tensions, but Ecuador’s leftist...

Video taken during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying...

Video recorded during the rescue of 15 hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying...

Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia’s next president? It was one of the first questions she was asked after being freed in a daring helicopter rescue from six...

In a July 2 story about the rescue of kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from Colombian rebels, The Associated Press erroneously...

Hugo Chavez, once a key mediator in securing hostage releases from Colombian rebels, could do little more than phone congratulations to President Alvaro Uribe after...

The plan was nothing if not audacious: An infiltrator persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia’s...

A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren’t chained by the neck to trees, they were...

Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt embraced her children for the first time in six years Thursday, saying the thought of them helped her stay alive until a...

Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she will travel to France and meet President Nicolas Sarkozy now that she is free after more than six years of captivity among...

Ingrid Betancourt woke up, as always, at 4 a.m., for another numbing day in her seventh year of rebel captivity deep in Colombia’s jungle. The former presidential...

Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she will travel to France and meet President Nicolas Sarkozy now that she is free after more than six years of captivity among...

Ingrid Betancourt woke up, as always, at 4 a.m., for another numbing day in her seventh year of rebel captivity deep in Colombia’s jungle.

Comments by kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, a dual French national who was freed Wednesday along with 14 other hostages by the Colombian military...