After candidates in the northern region of Sri Lanka for next month’s general election complained about military harassment, Sri Lankan Army commander Shavendra Silva has reacted by insisting ...

The former head of Sri Lanka’s army has been reinstated as a general by the country’s ... Sarath Fonseka was sentenced by a military court to 30 months in jail and denied his political rights ...

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered a three-day military deployment ahead of the funeral of a protester killed earlier this week when police fired at crowds angry over the country ...

Soldiering in Sri Lanka during ancient, medieval, colonial, post-independent and contemporary times undoubtedly mirrors how the exercise of military power, as in the case of many countries around ...

The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is responsible for land-based military and humanitarian operations. Established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, it was ...

In November 2011, two years after the end of the civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the army expropriated Kasankurni’s homes for a military base. Literally overnight, they ...

Sri Lanka’s new president is putting soldiers in charge of ... His years as an army officer would ensure that. A military timbre to the former lieutenant-colonel’s rule was always on the ...

Sri Lanka's army has dismissed a U.N. envoy's charge that elements within the security forces are helping renegade rebels to abduct children as soldiers to fight the Tamil Tigers, voicing deep ...

Sri Lankan forces bombarding rebels with artillery on Wednesday hit a school where scores of civilians had taken refuge from the fighting, killing at least 45 Tamils and wounding 125 others in the ...

The Sri Lanka Army was born on October 10, 1949, as the Ceylon Army at the end of the Second World War and the dawn of independence to the country. On December 9, 1950, the Sri Lanka Navy Act was ...

Sri Lankan police have detained 11 people, most of them soldiers or former soldiers, in a widening probe into the disappearance of a cartoonist that has become a test case of the new government's ...

The white tattered strips line the main road to Kuliyapitiya, hanging off telephone poles and fence posts, each one signifying another funeral, another loss, another hole punched in the heart of a ...