Muslims in Sri Lanka are on edge. They're a religious minority in Sri Lanka - about 10% of the population. In recent years, they've been targeted by extremist Buddhist mobs setting fire to homes ...

At least three people have been killed and 52 injured after Buddhist mobs rampaged through Muslim areas in southwest Sri Lanka, police say. The outbreak of religious violence followed a large ...

Fellow Muslims told him the men bore animosity toward Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority and had become radicalized. Worst of all, they said, the brothers were rumored to be stockpiling weapons.

Police said at least seven suicide bombers were involved in the massacre. Members of a radical Muslim group have been identified as suspects in a series of Easter suicide bombings on churches and ...

Increasing violence over the past two years against Muslims, who make up about 10 percent of Sri Lanka’s population, mirror events in Myanmar, which has also seen a surge of attacks by members ...

Reporting from COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — With Sri Lanka under a state of emergency after a spasm of anti-Muslim bloodshed, lawyer Jeevanee Kariyawasam went on Facebook to complain. The company hadn ...

On a humid morning in June 2006, a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka, buzzed with the activities of my nikah (Islamic marriage) ceremony. The men, I imagine, were huddled together around the marriage ...

Muslims in Sri Lanka are celebrating the Hajj festival today. The festival commemorates the sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim’s (Abraham) son as an act of respect to the divine. Eid al-Adha, the second ...

Government officials in Sri Lanka are withholding exam results from 70 Muslim women and girls because their head coverings allegedly covered their ears while they took their exams. The decision vi ...

Today, our Muslim brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka and around the world are celebrating the Hajj festival with deep devotion ...

Sri Lanka’s government today formally apologised to the island’s Muslim minority for forcing cremations on Covid victims, disregarding WHO assurances that burials in line with Islamic rites ...

hosted the inaugural IMRA Awards to recognise the accomplishments of Muslim women in Sri Lanka. The event was held on March 3, at the Shangri-La Colombo, this event coincided with the upcoming ...