Attack Colombian forces killed five members of the leftist rebel group FARC , on Wednesday , said a military source .
The attack is the latest in a series of military operations that killed 26 militants since the weekend , the source said , AFP reported .
The clashes came amid ongoing peace talks in Havana , Cuba , aimed at ending 50 years of violence in Colombia .
Military sources said that the clashes Wednesday in the area of Meta , Colombia middle , troops killed five militants and arrested eight people .
Tuesday , the military said seven militants were killed in the operation in the Tolima region , also in central Colombia .
According to the military , 14 militants were killed in air and ground assault on the weekend against a rebel base in the rural areas near Venezuela .
President Juan Manuel Santos has promised to continue pressing the government despite FARC peace talks with the group in Havana .
" Military offensive will continue until we reach an agreement , " said Santos told Spanish media on Tuesday , during a visit to Madrid .
Negotiations between the two parties began again last Monday ( 13/1 ) after discontinuation over three weeks.
For more than a year , the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) peace talks in Cuba with the aim of ending Latin America 's longest conflicts .
Of the five -point agenda , both parties have so far only reached two agreements - land reform and the participation of the rebel group in politics if they end the war that has lasted nearly 50 years . Other issues on the agenda is drug trafficking , compensation of victims of war and an end to the conflict .
FARC has admitted for the first time some of the responsibility for the bloodshed decades , which implies significant changes in their attitudes as long as it is still claimed that group members become victims of government repression .
The Colombian government and FARC started a dialogue in Oslo , the capital of Norway , on October 18, 2012 aimed at ending a half-century conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people . The talks followed a month later in Havana , Cuba .
Three previous attempts to end the conflict have failed .
The last round of negotiations was held in 2002 failed when the Colombian government concluded that the group is uniting again in a demilitarized zone covering an area of Switzerland which they form to help achieve peace treaty .
Violence continues despite peace efforts made by both parties .
FARC , the largest leftist guerrilla group that is still left in Latin America , is believed to have about 9,200 members in the forests and mountains in Colombia , according to government estimates . The group fight
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