The guerillas did not comply. Last Saturday and Sunday the LTTE deployed waves of attacks against the advancing troops and fired several rounds of artillery. The LTTE had even deployed several Black ...

Former President and leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Mahinda Rajapaksa has strongly criticized the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions on Sri Lanka’s former military leaders, ...

Attack thwarted A Tamil Tiger statement say four-pronged attempt by the Sri Lanka Army. "The attempt to break the LTTE Forward Defence Line in Muhamaalai, Kilaali and Kandal in the Northern Front ...

from about 9.50 a.m. to 5 p.m. The LTTE attack was finally repulsed after troops used mortar and artillery rounds against guerrilla positions. Troops of the 58 division had faced similar attacks from ...

Nearly 16 years after Sri Lanka's civil war, former female fighters from the country's northern provinces still have limited ...

When the attack happened, I was shocked and afraid. 81 The deaths of numerous child combatants during the internecine fighting between the Vanni LTTE and Karuna’s faction highlights the ...

15 Members or suspected members of anti-LTTE Tamil political parties, which were required to give up their arms under the CFA, were particularly subject to attack. Instability in Sri Lanka’s ...

Despite the 2002 ceasefire agreement, the LTTE had carried out 363 killings during the ceasefire between February 2002 and the end of September 2005. LTTE attacks intensified in the first few weeks ...

Colombo High Court Judge Adithya Patabendi, on March 27, 2025, acquitted former ASP Kulasiri Udugampola, who had been ...

I am appalled that Congress is pushing forward with budget cuts that will strip healthcare and food assistance from millions of Americans. In a remarkable act of determination, Senator Cory Booker ...

Colombo: The Sri Lanka government Wednesday formed a committee to recommend measures to be taken on the UK’s decision to ...

LTTE attacks intensified in the first few weeks and months after I was elected President in November 2005. Among the most serious such incidents were claymore mine attacks on 4 and 6 December 2005 ...