The decision by Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down as Sri Lanka's president on Saturday should signal the beginning of rebuilding and strength...

President Rajapaksa informed the Speaker about this decision to quit after Abeywardena wrote to him seeking his resignation following the a...

Sri Lanka has suffered through months of food and fuel shortages, lengthy blackouts and galloping inflation after running out of foreign cu...

Former Prime Minister Mahinda's House in Kurunegala was also set on fire by protesters while a mob also destroyed D A Rajapaksa Memorial - ...

In a series of tweets, the President outlined the steps to be taken to end the current political impasse after his elder brother and prime ...

On Tuesday, while many local television visuals showed anti-government protesters shouting slogans for the president to resign and also reb...

Violence erupted in Sri Lanka on Monday after supporters of then prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attacked peaceful anti-government protest...

Mahinda Rajapaksa, 76, resigned as Sri Lankan Prime Minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil, hours after his supporters atta...

Video footage showed the entire house of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his younger brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Medam...

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka said it was deeply concerned about the promulgation of an emergency.

Sri Lanka's government has been facing a wave of protests around the country with an increasingly furious public demanding its resignation....

On Sunday, opposition parties ended a week-long march from the central city of Kandy, with thousands of supporters thronging Colombo's Inde...

"On this #InternationalWorkersDay, I once again invite all political party leaders in #lka to come to a consensus on behalf of the people. ...

In an interview with Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror, Rajapaksa said "GoHomeRajapaksa" campaigns are being run by only a certain section of the po...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's overture came as armed troops looked to quell more demonstrations over what the government acknowledges is t...

Twenty-six ministers in the cabinet -- all members except President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his elder brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapak...

Late Thursday hundreds of people tried to storm the home of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the current president and one of four politically active br...