BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Allegations of fraud, voter intimidation and sporadic violence marred elections in Sri Lanka's east Saturday despite the

TRINCOMALEE: About 60 per cent of the nearly 10 lakh voters exercised their franchise in the first-ever election to the Sri Lanka Eastern Provincial Council

TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Tamil Tiger rebels sank a navy cargo ship moored in the northeast of Sri Lanka on Saturday in an attack coinciding with key

A Sri Lankan navy cargo vessel has been sunk by a Tamil Tiger attack in the eastern port town of Trincomalee. The attack, confirmed by the Sri Lankan

Tamil Tiger rebels have sunk a naval cargo ship in eastern Sri Lanka, hours before important local elections were due to begin.

By VOA News A bomb explosion in a town in eastern Sri Lanka has killed at least 11 people, a day ahead of local elections in the region.

By Sarath Wijesinghe The Eastern Province is considered the “Rice Bowl” in Sri Lanka, as paddy is the main crop in the area. The total population of the

Navy spokesman Commander DKP Dassanayake said a logistics vessel had been hit by an underwater explosion in Saturday`s attack. A rebel Black Tiger suicide

A bomb explosion in eastern Sri Lanka has killed at least eleven people, a day ahead of local elections in the region, the military says.

By Sandun A. Jayasekara, Kelum Bandara and Amadoru Amarajeeva The keenly contested first ever election in the de-merged and the recently liberated Eastern

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (The Sole Representatives of the Tamil People ®) Elite Pink Tiger Brigade MOUNTED (without Vaseline) a raid on a coastal

A foreign journalist who phoned a head of a European Mission in Colombo, after the terrorist attack at Piliyandala, had inquired as to whether the position

PTI The elections for the Eastern Provincial Council held on Saturday after 20 years ended peacefully despite the tensions in the region and the sinking of