Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war came to a bloody end exactly four years ago, ... my bus bumped through the windswept Vanni and across the Jaffna Lagoon in just under five.

Sri Lanka Fighting Traps Thousands in Jaffna Thousands of people trying to leave Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula are trapped by ethnic conflict. The peninsula is held by the Sri Lankan government.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports that Sri Lankans went to the polls today to elect a new parliament, but in the city of Jaffna, residents seem disinterested in the results. They don't believe that ...

To the east of the Thond-aimanaaru Lagoon lie some magnificent sand dunes and one of the most beautiful beaches in Sri Lanka — Manalkadu. Here, as was the practice in the 1970s, the Forest Department ...

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We were in Sri Lanka to remember our comrades, those we had cremated or buried here in the days of 1987-1990, when we were part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force fighting the Liberation Tigers of ...

COLOMBO — When a group of herpetologists ventured into Jaffna in Sri Lanka’s north to conduct their first herpetological field survey of the peninsula, they were largely lured by the unknown.

Long out of bounds for travellers, because of the war, the city of Jaffna, and its peninsula, is now safe for travel and there's even a new railway line. I've been to Sri Lanka a couple of times ...