Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to a dramatic end in May with a decisive military victory and the killing of ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops over the weekend forged ahead toward the Tamil Tiger rebels' last stronghold, at the port of Mullaittivu, with the goal of ending one of Asia's longest-running rebellions ...

(Adds detail) COLOMBO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber mixed with a group of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka's war zone blew herself up on Monday, killing an unknown number of people ...

The chief of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers has declared the Tamils have no choice but to have their own state, in a speech that effectively ends the island's peace process. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ...

The Sri Lankan Army announced with some fanfare two weeks ago that it had destroyed the last air strip used by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), its adversary in a 25-year-long conflict ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A human rights group on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to formally charge or release four university students detained on allegations of terrorism for honoring Tamil Tiger rebels ...

SATTAHIP, Thailand, Sept. 18 -- Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels today gave their clearest commitment yet to peacefully settling the nation's 19-year civil war, demanding only self-determination -- not ...