The Sri Lankan army has Asia’s longest-running insurgency on the ropes: The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) movement, long been considered one of the world’s most fearsome guerrilla ...

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 ...

Last week, Veteran journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj, writing the first of a two-part article on Mahinda Rajapaksa turning 80, aptly ...

COLOMBO apr, 20 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Monday gave the Tamil Tiger rebels 24 hours to surrender after thousands of civilians fled the war zone when ...

(Adds background) By C. Bryson Hull COLOMBO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers will go underground rather than "fight to the last man" once a northern offensive that has cut their strength ...

Colombo - The Sri Lankan military and sources close to Tamil Tiger rebels reported scores of deaths among each other's forces in battles in the north of the island on Tuesday. The fighting was the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Tamil Tigers use a worldwide network of fake charities and a sophisticated smuggling operation to raise up to $300 million a year to fund a separatist battle with the Sri ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sri Lankan combatants experienced prolonged exposure to combat, surpassing the durations faced by veterans of World War II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Gulf War. As a result, a significant number of these ...