Many of the gravesites that pockmark the north and east of the country are believed to contain the victims of atrocities ...

The president called the nationwide flooding the largest and most challenging natural disaster in the island’s history, as ...

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 ...

The death toll of Cyclone Ditwah is over 300 and counting. Hundreds more have gone missing. Tens of thousands have been ...

In November 1940, Ratmalana was requisitioned by the RAF (Royal Air Force), its runway extended and paved to a likely length ...

Even if you knew nothing about Vijaya, her haunting portrait would likely give you pause. She peers out of the page, unsmiling, her silver hair pulled back and her eyes conveying an unspoken anguish.

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 ...

Veramuththu Singamuththu embodies both the pain caused by Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war and the opportunities that the war’s end has slowly started to bring. In 2008, the onetime fisherman, along with ...

Stories of war — the ones we tell the loudest — are often about men. But for the true cost of war to be clear, we must do a better job of telling, and hearing, the stories of women — ordinarily ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - With a quarter-century civil war in the history books, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will now put to the test his theory of using a military victory over terrorism as the ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The United States believes there is little prospect Sri Lanka will hold anyone accountable for the bloody end of the war with the Tamil Tigers because war crimes allegations ...

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 ...