The decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka may finally be over. The government has declared victory over the rebel Tamil Tigers — and the Tigers have conceded defeat. Rebecca Roberts talks to U.N ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan 30, 2009— -- After nearly three decades of fighting, the Sri Lankan government is convinced Asia's longest-running civil war could soon be over. More than 100,000 ...

Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, including new video evidence of war crimes. Watch Channel 4 at 11.05pm tonight.

Sri Lankan authorities have threatened and detained Tamils commemorating those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today. Sri Lanka: Crackdown Over Civil ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive.

Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009, but ethnonationalism remains a powerful force in the country's politics. Professor Mythri Jegathesan traces the country's present crisis to its recent ...

V.V. Ganeshananthan's new novel, Brotherless Night, dives into the Sri Lankan Civil War through the story of Sashi, a 16-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a doctor. As violence unfolds around ...

Sri Lanka is uncovering mass graves but not the grisly truth of its civil war History suggests the island-country’s latest effort to heal its terrible war wounds will fail ...

Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the cultish leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), died in a blaze of infamy on Sunday. With him died Sri Lanka's devastating 26-year civil war. But while ...