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In a parliamentary speech last month, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sambandan declared for the first time that his party would no longer insist on a full withdrawal of the military from the ...

In Sri Lanka, government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels engaged in a new round of deadly fighting in a civil war conflict that has left thousands dead or displaced. Ravi Nessman, the Associated Press ...

And let's get an update now on another troubled part of the world where there's a civil war - Sri Lanka. That civil war seems to be getting worse. Hundreds of civilians have died in the last few days.

The Tamil people living in the North East have been fighting for their rights through non-violence and armed means for more than 75 years. The Sri Lankan government, which depicted the Tamil people's ...

Sri Lanka has replaced the ex-military governor of the country’s Tamil-majority north with a civilian. In a sign that Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena could improve ...