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 ...

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 ...

Kalaiselvi Jayakumar, 42, who was part of the then LTTE's attack regiment, is still finding her feet. She was recruited in the Tigers' ranks when she was just 16 years old. "The lack of a formal ...

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 ...

More than one hundred villagers, most of them Sinhalese, were killed in a series of attacks by LTTE members in villages in the east and northeast beginning on October 21, the day after the LTTE ...

Gen. Parami Kulatunga, killed in a suicide attack at Pannipitiya, in June 2006, revealed the direct involvement of military personnel with the LTTE. Indrananda de Silva disclosed that soon after Anura ...

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila said yesterday that former State Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan ...

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 in ...

“In 2009, Sri Lanka’s armed forces successfully ended a brutal 30-year war against the LTTE after thousands of innocent civilians were killed in terrorist attacks, including bombings in ...

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 ...