And let's get an update now on another troubled part of the world where there's a civil war - Sri Lanka. That civil war seems to be getting worse. Hundreds of civilians have died in the last few days.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The ruthless and elusive leader of the Tamil Tigers rebel movement was killed Monday by Sri Lankan forces in what might have been the final showdown in one of Asia's ...

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 ...

More than 7,000 Tamil Tiger fighters have been questioned by judges as part of their rehabilitation following Asia's longest modern war, Sri Lanka's military said on Tuesday. After declaring victory ...

Sri Lankan forces captured Elephant Pass, the Tamil Tigers' last stronghold on the Jaffna peninsula, yesterday, seizing control of a base and a symbolic highway and isolating the retreating rebels in ...

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 ...

For more than 30 years, Velupillai Prabhakaran has been Sri Lanka’s most wanted man. The authorities now believe they have cornered the elusive commander of one of the world’s deadliest and most ...

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 ...

The Sri Lankan Army announced with some fanfare two weeks ago that it had destroyed the last air strip used by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), its adversary in a 25-year-long conflict ...

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 ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Tamil Tiger rebels will never surrender, the head of the separatists' peace secretariat told Reuters on Tuesday, despite their being outgunned in an apparent final offensive by ...

Hundreds of civilians in Sri Lanka have been killed recently. Aid officials believe many were victims of shelling by the Sri Lankan army fighting against the Tamil Tigers, who are using civilians as ...