Francis writes for the Associated Press. AMBEPUSSA, SRI LANKA — Vinojan’s boyhood ended when Sri Lanka’s civil war reignited. He was 15, he says, when he joined the separatist Tamil Tigers ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Following more than a quarter-century of civil war, Sri Lanka faces the task of trying to reconcile and rebuild after its troops routed the last Tamil Tiger separatist rebels ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Following more than a quarter-century of civil war, Sri Lanka faces the... Associated PressSri Lankans hold their national flags as they celebrate the victory of the military ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka commemorated the ninth anniversary of the end of its civil war as a divided nation, with minority Tamils calling for an international investigation into ...

Rajendran Uday was 22 when soldiers came at night and took him away, his mother says. They're among tens of thousands of people, mostly Tamils from the north, who disappeared in Sri Lanka's civil war.

Major developments in Sri Lanka's conflict: — 1975: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group forms. The group demands a separate state for minority ethnic Tamils in the island's north and east ...

Timeline of Sri Lanka’s civil war Recent peace talks failed to bring an end to 23 years of civil war in Sri Lanka that has now claimed over 65,000 lives. Published On 27 Mar 2007 27 Mar 2007 ...

Civilians are the casualties in Sri Lanka's brutal civil war. In a rare report from inside former rebel-held areas, SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda meets fleeing refugees and ex-fighters ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka marked the eighth anniversary of the end of its bloody civil war on Friday with much of the legacy and divisions created by more than quarter-century of violence ...

Last weekend, Tamils in Sri Lanka gathered to commemorate those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2009. As they have for the last 16 years, they also ...