COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan warplanes on Saturday attacked a camp housing Tamil Tiger rebel suicide bombers in the country's north, the military said. The rebels, however, dismissed the claim. The ...

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In a parliamentary speech last month, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sambandan declared for the first time that his party would no longer insist on a full withdrawal of the military from the ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan troops dismantled the last rebel defense on the island’s west coast Saturday, securing a land route to the northern peninsula in a key victory against ...

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 Sri Lankan government offensive against the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels is continuing amidst growing concern for the fate of over 250,000 civilians trapped in the fighting. The Sri Lankan ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Battles, roadside bombings and mortar attacks across Sri Lanka's turbulent north killed 32 Tamil Tiger rebels and nine government soldiers, the military said Thursday. The newly ...

JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to Sri Lanka, the war-ravaged island nation off the southern coast of India. A Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on the escalating violence in ...

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — Government forces bombarding Tamil Tiger rebels with artillery hit a school where scores of civilians had taken refuge from the fighting Wednesday, killing at least 60 Tamil ...

Tamil families in Thaiyiddy were displaced in 1990 by the military. An area of six acres is now home to the Tissa Vihara Buddhist temple. Despite the end of the civil war in 2009, locals have not seen ...

(Adds detail) COLOMBO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber mixed with a group of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka's war zone blew herself up on Monday, killing an unknown number of people ...