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

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 ...

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 ...

The Sri Lankan government faced criticism over its handling of Sivanaesathuarai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Accusations flew over potential framing ...

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 ...

Ranjini reminisces with a mix of nostalgia and regret about her years fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war as a former company ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new book by former West Bengal governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi claims that former chief election commissioner T N Seshan ...

“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 ...

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 ...