The Sri Lankan Army announced with some fanfare two weeks ago that it had destroyed the last air strip used by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), its adversary in a 25-year-long conflict ...

Earlier, the Sri Lanka Naval elite seaborne squadron of 4th Fast Attack Flotilla successfully thwarted an LTTE siege off Point Pedro, on Saturday the 02nd of September, at 03.30a.m. The naval fast ...

The Sri Lankan army has Asia’s longest-running insurgency on the ropes: The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) movement, long been considered one of the world’s most fearsome guerrilla ...

(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 ...

(Adds comment, details) COLOMBO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels attacked an air force base in northern Sri Lanka before dawn on Monday and heavy explosions and gunfire could be heard, the ...

NEW DELHI, June 12 (KUNA) -- Sri Lanka has announced that it has launched an operation to capture alive the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. "Sri Lankan military has launched a major offensive to ...

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 ...