Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.

On 20 July 2013, two clashes occurred in Colombia between government forces and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Nineteen soldiers were killed in the deadliest day since peace talks began in November 2012. The conflict came one day after a FARC-EP officer, Alejandra, had…