COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The ruthless and elusive leader of the Tamil Tigers rebel movement was killed Monday by Sri Lankan forces in what might have been the final showdown in one of Asia's ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It ...

A UN report highlights the lack of justice for Tamil civilians who experienced sexual violence during Sri Lanka's civil war, primarily by security forces.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Monday it would no longer use heavy weapons while it moves into the last pocket held by the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, after it brushed off a last-ditch truce ...

Hundreds of civilians in Sri Lanka have been killed recently. Aid officials believe many were victims of shelling by the Sri Lankan army fighting against the Tamil Tigers, who are using civilians as ...

Sri Lankan forces captured Elephant Pass, the Tamil Tigers' last stronghold on the Jaffna peninsula, yesterday, seizing control of a base and a symbolic highway and isolating the retreating rebels in ...

NEW DELHI — The leader of the remnants of the Sri Lankan separatist group known as the Tamil Tigers was arrested Thursday and taken to the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, for questioning, military ...

Jan 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops kept the heat on the Tamil Tiger separatists on Monday, a day after seizing the last big town held by the rebels, Mullaittivu. Sign up here. The army's commander, ...

For more than 30 years, Velupillai Prabhakaran has been Sri Lanka’s most wanted man. The authorities now believe they have cornered the elusive commander of one of the world’s deadliest and most ...

Sri Lankan troops advancing in the north of the island have found an underground bunker complex believed to have been a home of the leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, the defence ministry said on ...

The Sri Lankan army has Asia’s longest-running insurgency on the ropes: The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) movement, long been considered one of the world’s most fearsome guerrilla ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri LankaMULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and ...