Tamil separatist guerrillas killed 78 people and wounded 100 others today in an attack on a bus stop in the town of Anuradhapura, a government official said.
Tamil rebels exploded a powerful mine under a bus in Sri Lanka, killing 31 people and injuring 22, mostly members of the majority Sinhalese community.
The Sri Lankan government clamped a nine-hour curfew on the northern Killinochchi district Sunday
Five Tamil guerrillas were killed in a clash with Sri Lankan troops in the northern district of Jaffna, a government statement said Friday.
Sri Lanka's main opposition party rejected a government-proposed plan to end the island's bloody ethnic conflict.
Sri Lankan soldiers and Tamil separatist rebels announced that they will stop fighting for 24 hours as a Christmas good-will gesture.
province backed down from entering Sri Lanka's territorial waters today and headed home after a four-hour standoff with a naval patrol.
The government is checking all tea marked for export after the British and American embassies received warnings that arsenic had been put in some consignments, sources said here today.
land mines set by Tamil separatists in Sri Lanka's troubled eastern and north-central provinces, the Defense Ministry said.
Two rebels were shot to death after a separatist guerrilla land mine wounded 10 soldiers, a Sri Lanka defense spokesman said Wednesday.
Twelve people, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed Wednesday in fresh violence in Sri Lanka's Eastern province, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
A bomb demolished a passenger bus in the north-central Vavuniya district today, killing 29 people, a government spokesman said.
Nine separatist Tamil rebels were killed in clashes with government forces in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, the government reported Sunday.
Seven airmen and two civilians were killed by Tamil separatist guerrillas Friday in Sri Lanka's eastern Trincomalee district, the Defense Ministry said.
Only five days after Sri Lankan President Junius R.
Seven separatist guerrillas were killed in a gun battle with the police in Sri Lanka's troubled northern Jaffna district Saturday, state radio said.
attacked the Jaffna police station in Sri Lanka's Northern province, officials said Thursday.
negotiations, Sri Lanka's national security minister said Tuesday.
Air Lanka said Monday that it is implementing tight security measures because of the bomb blast on one of its planes at Colombo airport last week, in which 21 people were killed and more than 40 injured.
Cyprus, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles pulled out of the Commonwealth Games, swelling the list of