The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by ...

The Sri Lankan government should reverse a new regulation that unlawfully restricts protests in large areas of the capital, Colombo. On September 24, police arrested 84 people and used tear gas ...

Sri Lanka cannot be divided neatly by race, faith or language. The population is more than 70 percent Sinhalese; most are Buddhists, a minority is Christian. Around 10 percent of the country is ...

Sri Lanka's parliament elected longtime politician Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president in a secret ballot on Wednesday. Here's what led to this moment.

Sri Lanka’s international partners, including the United States, EU, Japan, India, and others should press for genuine reforms to ensure this bill meets Sri Lanka’s international human rights ...

New field guide . Sri Lanka is a global amphibian hotspot; at the time of compiling the guide, there were a known 120 amphibian species on the island, of which 107 (90% of the total) are found ...

Sri Lanka's lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate online content, the speaker of the parliament announced, a law which opposition politicians and activists allege will muzzle free speech.

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders and overthrow the government in an armed insurrection. On Sunday, he ...

Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, promising "clean" politics as the country recovers from its worst economic crisis.

Sri Lanka’s Green New Deal Was a Human Disaster. An ill-advised national experiment in organic farming yielded starvation, poverty and political chaos. By . Tunku Varadarajan. Share. Resize.