After the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which waged an armed struggle for independence for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, the extent of the killings of Tamil civilians ...

Across Sri Lanka, anger is exploding as prices for food and fuel explode out of reach for the masses. Workers, youth and the rural poor are uniting across ethnic and religious lines in mass protests ...

NEW DELHI — The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat Sunday in their quarter-century struggle against Sri Lanka’s government and offered to lay down their weapons to protect the fighters and civilians who ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka's government has pledged to quickly process hundreds of ethnic Tamils who have been detained without charges for years on suspicion of links to former Tamil Tiger rebels ...

It has been almost 12 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end after the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since 2009, there has been a concerted effort to hold ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former defense secretary and brother of ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa, emerged victorious in Sri Lanka’s presidential election last Sunday. Gotabaya was largely backed by the ...

Sri Lankan Tamil Y. Susaidasan reaches Dhanushkodi islet and is handed over to Marine police for further investigation.

Sri Lanka recently witnessed a hunger strike by more than 200 Tamil political prisoners across the country (who were demanding that they be released). The strike lasted for about a week and has now ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) -- Sri Lanka's military has said Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's body had been found, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged Tamils to join in rebuilding a nation split ...

Indian Tamil superstar Rajnikanth gestures as he sits with other Tamil movie stars during a day long fast in Chennai, India, Tuesday, April 2, 2013, demanding probe into alleged wartime abuses by Sri ...

A shocking mass grave discovery in Sri Lanka reignites global attention on one of the world's highest cases of unresolved enforced disappearances.

Amarasuriya’s comments once again expose the Dissanayake government’s claims to oppose communal politics, want ...