It has been almost 12 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end after the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since 2009, there has been a concerted effort to hold ...

For many years, Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war kept tourists at bay. When the 26-year conflict between the Tamil ethnic minority and the government ended in 2009, tourists flocked to the island nation’s ...

Today marks the anniversary of the beginning Black July, a massacre that served as the catalyst for the most violent period in Sri Lanka's history. Thousands of Tamils were killed by members of the ...

The resolution has been widely panned by observers as the weakest on Sri Lanka since such measures on accountability were ...

The explosions in Sri Lanka on Sunday, which killed more than 200 people and injured hundreds, were the deadliest violence in the country since its civil war ended a decade ago. The Easter Sunday ...

When the luxury Shangri-La hotel opened in Colombo in late 2017, it pointed to the relative calm that had emerged in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s decadeslong civil war. Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, ...

A series of bombings on Sunday morning killed almost 300 people at churches and hotels across Sri Lanka, a nation with a troubled history of inter-ethnic and faith-fueled violence. The attacks ...

The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka evoked the worst violence the country's long civil war. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Attacks in and outside Sri ...