Sri Lankan police officers detain and question a suspected drug offender during a search operation against narcotics in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. In a bid to tackle escalating ...

A surge in arrests of suspected foreign scammers in Sri Lanka has authorities concerned that the island is fast becoming a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president pledged to end the country’s 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and execute condemned drug traffickers amid alarm over drug-related crimes. The ...

In what constitutes a blatant war crime by the Sri Lankan government, the army’s merciless bombardment of a so-called no-fire zone, a small strip of land on the country’s northeast coast, killed and ...

A surge in arrests of suspected foreign scammers in Sri Lanka has authorities concerned that the island is fast becoming a ...

Nisha Desai Biswal, U.S. assistant secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, gestures during a news conference in Colombo February 1, 2014. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte By Shihar Aneez and Ranga ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka has backtracked and will now allow a United Nations team to visit the country and share evidence gathered during an investigation into whether war crimes were committed ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s leader is seeking the support of President-elect Donald Trump to free Sri Lankan troops from war crime allegations from the country’s decades-long civil war.

The bombing attacks on Easter Sunday killed at least 290 people and injured more than 500 Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa, a fifth grader from Washington, D.C., was reportedly among the American victims of ...