The mass graves at Chemmani cemetery in Jaffna reveal hundreds of human remains, reopening the painful wounds of Sri Lanka's ...

The government of Sri Lanka announced plans this week to conduct a nationwide census to tally “human and property damages” inflicted during the nation’s three decades of civil war. “The death toll of ...

For much of the last 25 years, the government in Sri Lanka, that Indian Ocean island off the tip of India, has been fighting separatists known as the Tamil Tigers. Those separatists want a homeland ...

Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka – On a beach in northeastern Sri Lanka, Krishnan Anjan Jeevarani laid out some of her family’s favourite food items on a banana leaf. She placed a samosa, lollipops and a large ...

Sri Lanka was heading towards a political and economic crisis long before protestors in the capital of Colombo took to the streets and stormed the President’s House in early July, forcing President ...

Forty years ago, anti-Tamil violence in Sri Lanka exploded, fuelling a civil war that continues to haunt survivors - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA Forty years ago ...

Tamil Tiger rebels have said that Sri Lanka's four-year ceasefire is now void and the island's two-decade civil war back on as guerrillas and the military entered a sixth straight day of fighting. S.

A Macomb County drug bust on June 16, 2025, resulted in the seizure of 10 pounds of marijuana, 600 grams of mushrooms, five guns, $22,756 in cash and two vehicles. Read full article: Strong storms ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It ...

Sri Lankan government claims it is close to defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan 30, 2009— -- After nearly three decades of fighting, the Sri Lankan government is convinced ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka declared total victory on Monday in one of the world's most intractable wars, after killing the separatist Tamil Tigers' leader and taking control of the entire country ...