Five killed in Sri Lanka May Day mine attack
May 1 (AFP) - A Claymore mine exploded in Sri Lanka's port town of Trincomalee on Monday, killing five people after political parties called off May Day …
May 1 (AFP) - A Claymore mine exploded in Sri Lanka's port town of Trincomalee on Monday, killing five people after political parties called off May Day …
Apr. 30 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's main political parties have agreed to call off May Day rallies scheduled for Monday because of fears that large gatherings could …
TRINCOMALEE, Apr. 30 (AFP) - The governor of Sri Lanka's Northeast Province has played down civilian casualties inflicted during military strikes on Tamil …
Apr. 30 (AFP) - At least 18 rebels were killed and many more wounded when Tamil Tiger guerrillas on Sunday launched a major attack against a breakaway faction …
Apr. 30 (AFP) - Sri Lanka on Sunday protested an allegation by Scandinavian truce monitors that government forces may have been responsible for extrajudicial …
Apr. 30 (AFP) - Four children were killed in government air strikes in northeastern Sri Lanka last week, the United Nations children's agency said Sunday, …
April 30 (AFP) - Sri Lankan security forces fired artillery guns at suspected Tamil Tiger positions after the rebels carried out an abortive attack on a …
Apr. 29 (AFP) - Sri Lanka violated a ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels by launching air strikes this week, foreign truce monitors said Saturday, expressing …
TRINCOMALEE, Apr. 29 (AFP) - Community leaders met in this northeastern Sri Lankan port town Saturday in a bid to defuse tension and suspicion between …
Apr. 29 (AFP) - A woman soldier has died of her injuries, bringing to 11 the number of people killed in a suicide bomb attack against Sri Lanka's army chief, a …
Apr. 29 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is facing a propaganda war more dangerous than the recent violence in the country, the president said, as newspapers on Saturday …
MUTTUR, Sri Lanka, Apr. 28 (AFP) - Displaced by the war, displaced by the tsunami, now Kiyathupillai Mohideen is on the move again -- this time after clashes …
OSLO, Apr. 28 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's international donors meeting in Oslo on Friday pressed both rebels and the Sri Lankan government to return to negotiations to …
Apr. 28 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's bloodiest bombings in four years have made investors jittery and led to the first-ever downgrade in the island's sovereign ratings, …
Apr. 28 (AFP) - The United Nations Friday urged both the Sri Lanka government and rebel Tamil Tigers to quickly end the political killings that have led to an …
April 28, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police have found the mobile phone card used by a female suicide bomber who tried to assassinate the country's army chief and …
SAMPUR, Sri Lanka, Apr. 28 (AFP) - Houses in this rebel-held town were deserted and streets eerily empty Friday, three days after Sri Lanka's military pounded …
Apr. 27 (AFP) - Sri Lanka on Thursday set aside one million dollars in aid for thousands of people who fled their homes after an upsurge in violence in the …
Apr. 27, 2006 (AFP) - At least five security personnel were killed in three separate Claymore mine attacks in northern Sri Lanka Thursday, the military said. …
SERUVILA, Sri Lanka, Apr. 27 (AFP) - The two men who came to kill her and her family wore masks and spoke Sinhalese, a wounded Josep Devi, wincing in pain, …