MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It ...

Many of the gravesites that pockmark the north and east of the country are believed to contain the victims of atrocities committed during the civil war. Caught between warring rebel fighters and the ...

KEPPAPILAVU, Sri Lanka, March 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C handraleela Jasinthan was a school teacher in a northern Sri Lankan village when, in the last days of the civil war, she and her ...

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NEW DELHI — The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat Sunday in their quarter-century struggle against Sri Lanka’s government and offered to lay down their weapons to protect the fighters and civilians who ...

The rain bands of Cyclone Ditwah reached southern Tamil Nadu on the morning of November 28, causing rain. At the same time, the cyclone was still causing extremely heavy rainfall, flash floods and ...

In Rameswaram, nearly 200 habitations in Thangachimadam remained marooned after two days of heavy rainfall..Tamil Nadu rain, ...

Sri Lanka needs around $7 billion to rebuild homes, roads and industries destroyed by Cyclone Ditwah, which so far has left ...

The Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka are undoubtedly one of the most organized, effective and brutal terrorist groups in the world. They invented the suicide vest and, according to the FBI, are the only ...

Hundreds of Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka, many of whom have spent nearly two decades in jail without seeing the inside of a courtroom, have initiated a hunger strike to demand their immediate release.

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s new government declined to sing the national anthem in Tamil, the country’s second national language, during the island’s Independence Day ...