Police Special Task Force officers patrol outside Dawatagaha Jumma Masjid during Friday prayers on April 26, 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Carl Court/Getty Images ...

Violence has risen in Sri Lanka in recent months as the country has slid back towards war, despite a 2002 ceasefire still in place. Military push. The police officers' bus was heading out of ...

Three trucks carrying explosives blew up inside a police compound in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday, killing at least 25 people in what the military called an accident.

At least two people were killed and 11 others were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, police said. Explore. Search Wednesday, Oct 04, 2023. New Delhi o C.

“Police should not be using intimidation tactics to prevent journalist from covering protests by Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, or any others.” Police have repeatedly interrogated Sasikaren over his ...

Sri Lanka: Police in shootout during raid on 'bomb factory' after Easter Sunday attacks. Security forces raided location used to manufacture suicide vests, according to local media.

A new police unit tasked with "national reconciliation" and defusing sectarian tensions will have a tough task in Sri Lanka. Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe announced the special police on ...

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka, June 28 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is starting to scale back its operations to help internally displaced people in eastern Sri Lanka and is closing its office in Batticaloa ...

A supporter of Sri Lanka's main opposition covers his face as police fire water cannons to disperse them during a protest rally against high taxes and increases in electricity and fuel charges, in ...