Cabinet spokesperson Rajitha Senaratne last month said the new government was considering the release of political detainees.

Motoo Noguchi was named by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the advisory panel of the Presidential Commission investigating the cases of disa...

Former Tamil Tiger rebel has been killed in Sri Lanka's Northern Province by an unidentified person but police today said the murder was a ...

The resolution also urged India to stop describing Sri Lanka as a friendly nation and sought an international probe on war crimes.

The govt told the ICRC to move out of two northern towns after the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels in May last year brought about the end of d...

Sri Lanka on Friday rejected as 'lies' new photographs broadcast by Al-Jazeera of piles of dead bodies and execution-style killings.

Prabhakaran was waiting till May 16, the day results of Lok Sabha elections were known, to decide on his and LTTE's future, but it was too ...

Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is still alive, the pro-rebel website Tamilnet reported on Friday, days after video of what appe...

Sri Lankan forces on Thursday fought their way to just 800 metres from the area where an estimated 10,000-15,000 Tamil civilians are trappe...

A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself killing 28 people in Sri Lanka.

With the Sri Lankan Army continuing its pursuit of LTTE rebels after the decisive win in Mullaittivu town, the pressure is increasing on th...

Sri Lankan Prez has sent his brother to India for talks with top officials.

A wave of fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war killed 25 Tamil Tiger rebels and five soldiers, the military said.

Fifteen Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier have been killed in fresh clashes across Sri Lanka's tense northern front

A prominent human rights watchdog has criticised the British government for allowing Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Colonel Karuna Amma...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon today deplored the Sri Lankan government's decision to end its 2002 truce with Tamil Tigers rebels and pleaded for an ...

Sri Lankan war planes hit Tamil Tiger positions in the north of the island on Tuesday, killing two civilians, the guerrillas said.