Sri Lanka has the 17th largest military in the world Sri Lanka’s 2025 budget has allocated a staggering LKR 437 billion to defense spending which is LKR 12 billion higher than 2024 revised ...
By crippling the LTTE’s capability and motivation, the IPKF prevented the creation of Eelam (a separate homeland for the ...
The year was marked by prolonged political infighting in Colombo, renewed clashes between Sri Lankan military forces and the armed ... the Sri Lanka army launched Operation Agni Khiela ("fire ...
In 2021, the Sri Lankan Army became the unlikely vanguard of a supposed green revolution, resulting in a radical redefinition ...
Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on three former senior Sri Lankan military commanders and one former Tamil Tiger rebel ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa Leader Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna. The United Kingdom govt. has announced sanctions including travel bans and asset freezes against Sri Lanka’s former Chief o ...
Army and police personnel ... The security forces were witnessed beating up at least two journalists. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka, the main lawyers’ body in the country, also said at ...
The UK government imposed sanctions Monday on four individuals responsible for serious human rights abuses during Sri Lanka's civil war. The 26-year conflict, which ended in May 2009, claimed an ...
(CNN)-- The Sri Lankan army launched an operation against Tamil ... A rebel Web site, TamilNet, said government forces were engaged in a fresh ground offensive. A TamilNet correspondent in Vanni ...