IYSSE members speak with students at Jaffna University, Sri Lanka, November 2023. Campaigners distributed hundreds of copies of Sinhala and Tamil versions of a WSWS Editorial Board statement ...

Sri Lanka’s strategic location and maritime heritage offer a foundation for economic renewal. With wise governance, ...

Health workers in northern Sri Lanka insist that the insufficiency of tests and shortcomings of health facilities has made the province vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 ...

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.

The reconstructed Jaffna Public Library. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Anton Croos It was May 31, 1981 when early signs of the looming civil war broke out on the Jaffna peninsula of northern Sri Lanka.

The Jaffna Peninsula, located at the northern tip of Sri Lanka, is no exception. This area lies entirely within 10 km of the coast and has an almost flat topography with a maximum elevation of 15 m ...

While the film is set in 2009, Valin intentionally avoided specifying dates to emphasize the ongoing nature of the issues depicted. “People are still suffering there in Sri Lanka,” he said.

During his recent visit to Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the island country's 1996 World Cup-winning cricketers, including Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva and recalled ...