COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a prominent Muslim lawmaker and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 ...

Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-Buddhist nationalists have opened a new front in their war against the island’s minorities. If for decades it was the island’s Tamils who were the focus of their hostility, it is ...

Sri Lanka's Muslim cabinet members leave after addressing media in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, June 3, 2019. Sri Lanka’s Muslim politicians holding top government positions have resigned enmasse ...

Baby Shaayiq Faz was just 20 days old when he died. He was the youngest Covid victim in Sri Lanka, born amid a pandemic and cremated before reaching his first birthday. Officials at a Sri Lankan ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Sri Lanka on Tuesday as Muslims protested near the president’s office demanding that the government allow people ...

On Dec. 26 last year, in a town surrounded by tea and rubber plantations in central Sri Lanka, residents discovered Buddhist statues had been vandalized on the side of the road. In the middle of the ...

Religious tensions and a government ban on covering the face since the Easter Sunday suicide attacks have forced conservative Muslim women in Sri Lanka to shun veils, head scarves and long robes in ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Eleven Muslim politicians resigned from top government posts in Sri Lanka on Monday, saying they wanted to enable the government to investigate allegations that some of them ...

At least one person was killed Monday amid renewed anti-Muslim violence in a Sri Lankan town targeted during last month’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks. Police said 45-year-old Fauzul Amir was ...