(Adds rebel death toll) By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, March 12 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops killed the head of the Tamil Tigers' vast international financing network and 16 other fighters, and captured a ...

Ranjini reminisces with a mix of nostalgia and regret about her years fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war as a former company commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), popularly known as ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka declared today it had crushed the final resistance of the Tamil Tigers, killing rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and ending his three decade quest for an independent ...

Produced for British public television, this documentary soberly and concisely explains the atrocities committed in 2008 and ’09 during the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war. Though the video is ...

The Sri Lankan state must have had a laugh when a section of pro-LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) Tamils finally accepted that their leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, indeed perished in 2009. To ...

(Updates with military denial) By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, March 6 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said on Thursday an Army special forces unit blew up a rebel-backed member of parliament in their ...

NEW DELHI, India – The Sri Lankan air force launched a second round of retaliatory strikes on Tamil Tiger rebel positions yesterday amid fears that the country was returning to civil war after a ...

Sri Lanka’s 26 years of civil war effectively ended on May 19 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issued photo of slain Tamil Tiger head Velupillai Prabhakaran, ...