AS DARK CLOUDS of economic crisis, political chaos and mass protest loomed over Sri Lanka a year ago, optimists saw one silver lining. So incompetent and corrupt was the soon-to-collapse government of ...

Sri Lankan Tamil civil war survivors perform rituals in memory of their deceased family members on a small strip of land where civilians were trapped during the last stages of the war in Mullivaikkal, ...

Tamil women and children grieving on Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day in 2016, commemorating the killing of tens of thousands of Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan forces at Mullivaikkal in the final days of ...

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 ...

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 ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive.

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 ...

Jan 2 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops marched into the Tamil Tigers de facto capital of Kilinochchi and the town is about to fall into government hands, an official said on Friday. [nSP417902] More than ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri LankaMULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — 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 ...

(For related story see SRILANKA-VIOLENCE (ANALYSIS) or [ID:nCOL138295] and SRILANKA/VIOLENCE (FACTBOX) or [ID:nSP130292]) Sept 7 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's advance into the rebel Tamil Tigers' heartland ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — For 15 years, ...