The Sri Lankan army has Asia’s longest-running insurgency on the ropes: The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) movement, long been considered one of the world’s most fearsome guerrilla ...

(Adds background) By C. Bryson Hull COLOMBO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers will go underground rather than "fight to the last man" once a northern offensive that has cut their strength ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops fought toward the shrinking strongholds of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels on Sunday, the military said, seeking a crushing battlefield victory to end one of ...

And let's get an update now on another troubled part of the world where there's a civil war - Sri Lanka. That civil war seems to be getting worse. Hundreds of civilians have died in the last few days.

Photo courtesy of Crisis Group Academic and linguist Noam Chomsky once wrote: “if we adopt the principle of universality: if ...

India went into Sri Lanka as a peacekeeper and ended up in a bruising, three-year counter-insurgency that exposed gaps in ...

Ranjini reminisces with a mix of nostalgia and regret about her years fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war as a former company commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), popularly known as ...

For more than 30 years, Velupillai Prabhakaran has been Sri Lanka’s most wanted man. The authorities now believe they have cornered the elusive commander of one of the world’s deadliest and most ...

”Prabhakaran was fundamentally a military man whereas Balasingham was fundamentally a political man. They clashed.” ...

When Cyclone Ditwah hit Sri Lanka, the institution that did most of the heavy lifting was the military. They carried out ...

Salute to a brave father-son Cedric Martenstyn was a very affluent man. He owned a house in Colombo 7, valuable properties ...