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Nearly 16 years after Sri Lanka's civil war, former female fighters from the country's northern provinces still have limited opportunities.
Old footage of an aircraft firing missiles over a remote area has been misrepresented online as a recent military operation ...
Excavations in Chemmani, on outskirts of Jaffna, will continue for another 7 weeks. Among objects recovered are tiny socks ...
This led directly to Indian forces leaving Sri Lanka in 1990. The civil war on the island recommenced after Sri Lanka President Premada abandoned peace talks and sought to root out the LTTE.
The Tigers invented the suicide jacket, a bomb-laden vest, and the ongoing suicide and guerrilla attacks will persist in Sri Lanka until the Tamil minority is fully participating in society ...
The United Nations said on Monday Tamil Tiger rebels forcibly recruited another of its local workers in Sri Lanka's war zone along with three dependents of U.N. staff, including a 16-year-old girl.
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 ...
Sri Lanka's military said on Sunday troops had confined the Tamil Tiger rebels to a no-fire zone, where the last act of the 25-year separatist war will play out with tens of thousands of civilians ...
Nearly 16 years after Sri Lanka's civil war, former female fighters from Sri Lanka's northern provinces still have limited opportunities.