The causeway that links northern Sri Lanka’s mainland to Mannar Island is lined with vast military barracks. They are part of a housing project that the Indian government funded to rehabilitate ...

The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has unleashed immense suffering on the Tamil people of northern Sri Lanka. Sympathy for the LTTE’s massacred fighters, however, must not ...

In Sri Lanka, the Colombo media is engaged in a campaign to present the ceasefire agreement between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as having led to greater freedom ...

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 ...

IntroductionThe Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, are a separatist group in Sri Lanka. Since the 1980s, the LTTE have been agitating for a homeland for ...

But Sri Lanka’s murky politics have little to do with its offensive against the LTTE, says Rajiva Wijesinha, who heads up the government agency charged with bringing about a lasting political ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 30 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government says Western powers are precluding a final post-LTTE settlement. Founded in May 1976 The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a ...

Sri Lanka rejected international calls to halt its final offensive against Tamil rebels on Thursday, hours after the United Nations Security Council called for civilian lives to be spared ...

LTTE forces under Karuna’s command were directly involved in some of the worst crimes of Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long armed conflict, which ended in May 2009, Human Rights Watch said.

The Sri Lankan defence ministry in a statement said " Hindu' newspaper has published a report on May 13 quoting Indian intelligence that the LTTE is planning to launch an attack in Sri Lanka on May 18 ...

London, Lanka and drums reminds those who speculate that the LTTE is behind the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore: “The Sri Lankan cricket team is a phenomenon, possibly the only one, that has ...

India asked Sri Lanka on Thursday to stop its military campaign against the Tamil Tigers, while the issue forced a regional party to shut down a key electoral swing state in the middle of India's ...