COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Monday it would no longer use heavy weapons while it moves into the last pocket held by the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, after it brushed off a last-ditch truce ...

Jan 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops kept the heat on the Tamil Tiger separatists on Monday, a day after seizing the last big town held by the rebels, Mullaittivu. Sign up here. The army's commander, ...

Sri Lanka has neither fared anywhere as well as it was expected to do at Independence in 1948, nor even after its spectacular ...

At least 22 people with links to Tamil political parties opposed to the Tamil Tigers have been killed in politically motivated attacks since the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers signed a ...

Sri Lanka's government and top military brass were due to hold their own commemoration in Colombo on Sunday. On May 18, 2009 government forces brought their no-holds-barred military offensive to an ...

NEW DELHI — The leader of the remnants of the Sri Lankan separatist group known as the Tamil Tigers was arrested Thursday and taken to the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, for questioning, military ...

NEW DELHI, India – The Sri Lankan air force launched a second round of retaliatory strikes on Tamil Tiger rebel positions yesterday amid fears that the country was returning to civil war after a ...

Sri Lanka’s 26 years of civil war effectively ended on May 19 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issued photo of slain Tamil Tiger head Velupillai Prabhakaran, ...

Thirty years ago, a joint India-Pakistan XI featuring Sachin Tendulkar, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram and Anil Kumble played a ...