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

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 ...

A Sri Lankan-born man received an 18-month suspended sentence in Germany Tuesday for membership of the rebel group the Tamil Tigers which Germany considers a terrorist organisation. The 53-year-old ...

(Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops over the weekend forged ahead toward the Tamil Tiger rebels' last stronghold, at the port of Mullaittivu, with the goal of ending one of Asia's longest-running rebellions ...

The Sri Lankan national flag is everywhere in Colombo these days. In the last months of the Sri Lankan government’s 26-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the national flag — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lankan troops killed the head of the Tamil Tigers' vast international financing network and 16 other fighters, and captured a hospital in the last town the separatist guerrillas hold, the military ...

* Two rebel planes attack capital Colombo * One hits tax headquarters, 2 dead, 40 wounded * One shot down at Colombo international airport (Recasts, adds analyst comment) By Ranga Sirilal and C.