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| Farc suspends truce after Colombia army attack | |
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| Colombia's leftist rebel group Farc has suspended a unilateral ceasefire after 26 of its fighters were killed in a government air and ground offensive. | |
| The ceasefire had been in place since December 2014. | |
| The attack - in the country's south-western Cauca region - was the deadliest since the resumption of air strikes against the rebels last month. | |
| The two sides have been in negotiations since 2012 in an attempt to end more than half a century of conflict. | |
| The guerrilla group said in a statement that the ceasefire suspension was the result of "five months of land and air offensives against our structures all over the country". | |
| "We deplore the joint attack by the Air Force, the army and the police," said the statement. | |
| "We feel pain for the deaths of guerrilla fighters as well as soldiers, sons of a same people and from poor families". | |
| But the group said they were willing to maintain current peace talks taking place in Havana, Cuba. | |
| "Against our will we will proceed with the (peace) talks in the middle of a confrontation," they said. | |
| They also reiterated their demand for President Juan Manuel Santos to agree a bilateral ceasefire. | |
| Mr Santos restarted air strikes against the rebels last month after 11 soldiers were killed in an ambush. |