COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A bomb ripped through a bus as it stopped at a military checkpoint in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday, killing 16 civilians and wounding 25 others, the military said, blaming ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Tamil rebels rammed a truck packed with explosives into a convoy of military buses Monday, killing at least 93 sailors in one of the deadliest insurgent attacks since the 2002 ...

KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka — In times of crisis, envy the authoritarians. Veterans of a long guerrilla war, the Tamil rebels who control northern Sri Lanka moved with military precision to help victims of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The separatist Tamil Tigers, besieged and surrounded on a boggy beachfront, asked Britain and France on Sunday to press the government of Sri Lanka for a cease-fire. But the ...

Sri Lanka’s vanquished Tamil Tiger rebels name a man accused of running a huge arms smuggling operation as their new leader, two months after government troops crushed the separatist movement.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan authorities questioned the new leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels Friday after he was arrested in Southeast Asia and flown to this island nation. Selvarasa Pathmanathan, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan rebels said Monday that a new round of peace talks on ending the country's 25-year-old civil war is impossible as long as the government presses ahead with a military ...

The UN's child agency, Unicef, has accused Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels of stepping up child recruitment in the island's volatile east. Unicef officials in the capital, Colombo, say there has been a ...