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The sanctions are the first international action against Sri Lanka stemming from its brutal civil war. Several members of the new government are also accused of wartime abuses. NEW DELHI [...]

A decade after the close of a bloody civil war, a new president says 24,000 listed as missing are in fact dead. Dashing the hopes of thousands of families desperate [...]

Mr. Rajapaksa, a former defense chief and brother of an ex-president, vowed to bring stability to a country still reeling from attacks on Easter Sunday. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Gotabaya [...]

The election could mean a return to power for the Rajapaksa family, who ended the country's civil war by brutal means. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankans on Saturday voted [...]

The election could mean a return to power for the Rajapaksa family, who ended the country's civil war by brutal means. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankans on Saturday voted [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- All nine Muslim ministers in Sri Lanka's government and two Muslim provincial governors resigned on Monday as the fragile, Buddhist-majority country grappled further with the communal [...]

Byline: Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Even before the coordinated bombings that killed 250 people last month, Sri Lanka's president and prime minister were in trouble [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Even before the coordinated bombings that killed 250 people last month, Sri Lanka's president and prime minister were in trouble -- largely of their own making. [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka on Monday declared a countrywide curfew to control the worst outburst of violence since the deadly Easter Sunday bombings, after mobs attacked mosques and [...]

NEW DELHI -- Sri Lanka deployed additional troops to one of the cities where the Easter Sunday bombings took place, after clashes there late Sunday between Muslims and Sinhalese. In [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The suicide bombs were packed with ball bearings, iron nails and the explosive TATP, all hallmarks of the way the Islamic State likes to commit mass [...]

Byline: Mujib Mashal, Dharisha Bastians and Jeffrey Gettleman COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Time after time, Sri Lankan authorities have botched the effort first to head off and then to investigate [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Time after time, Sri Lankan authorities have botched the effort first to head off and then to investigate the Easter Sunday terrorist attack that killed more [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman and Dharisha Bastians NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka - Auranzeb Zabi was cooking rice at a friend's house on Wednesday when he heard angry shouting outside, looked out the [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman, Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - He built his fortune on black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg, cloves and vanilla. His family lived in a [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Hundreds of police officers swept through Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Thursday, shutting down large parts of the capital city and looking urgently for six suspects -- [...]

NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Auranzeb Zabi was cooking rice at a friend's house on Wednesday when he heard angry shouting outside, looked out the window and saw a mob of [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- He built his fortune on black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg, cloves and vanilla. His family lived in a beautiful white villa and traveled in a chauffeured [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman and Dharisha Bastians NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka - The little room, like much of Sri Lanka, could hold no more grief. All day Monday, through the steamy heat, [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman, Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone numbers, even the times in the middle [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, as the president of the traumatized nation [...]

Byline: Hannah Beech, Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz JAKARTA, Indonesia - The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday highlighted how easily religious coexistence can be ripped apart in a [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone numbers, even the times in the middle of the night that one suspect would visit [...]

NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The little room, like much of Sri Lanka, could hold no more grief. All day Monday, through the steamy heat, mourners quietly stepped inside and paused [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The clock hands on the steeple of St. Anthony's Shrine were stuck at 8:45 a.m., the exact moment when the first suicide bomber's explosion ripped through [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday highlighted how easily religious coexistence can be ripped apart in a region where secularism is weakening amid the growing [...]

In the decade since Sri Lanka's civil war ended, a former wartime defense chief has successfully dodged accusations of crimes against humanity. He may soon run for president. But the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka, intent on reviving the death penalty after a 42-year moratorium, first has to find a hangman.To that end, the government has placed advertisements [...]

NEW DELHI -- Sri Lanka's political crisis appeared to edge toward a resolution Friday when one of the two men claiming to be the country's rightful prime minister agreed to [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A Sri Lankan court issued an order on Monday temporarily preventing the disputed prime minister from holding office, the latest twist in a political crisis that [...]

Byline: MARIA ABI-HABIB and DHARISHA BASTIANS When Sri Lanka's president was elected in 2015, he was given a sweeping mandate from voters to investigate accusations of war crimes and graft [...]

When Sri Lanka's president was elected in 2015, he was given a sweeping mandate from voters to investigate accusations of war crimes and graft against his predecessor's government and to [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's escalating political crisis turned deadly on Sunday when the bodyguard of a former cabinet minister fired on a crowd, killing at least one person [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- President Mathripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka on Saturday suspended Parliament for two weeks as he sought to shore up support for unseating the country's prime minister, [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Sri Lanka plunged into a constitutional crisis Friday after the president ousted the prime minister, a move that took the nation by surprise and was denounced as [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's government imposed a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday after mob attacks against the minority Muslim population in a central district, violence that has [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Local elections across Sri Lanka on Saturday were supposed to be about small issues, like installing street lighting for some neighborhoods and improving garbage sweeping in [...]

KOTTE, Sri Lanka -- Madhu Hettiarachchi has no time right now for the brain surgery her doctors have recommended. She's busy trying to take advantage of an unprecedented chance to [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The government of Sri Lanka assessed the damage on Sunday from widespread flooding and devastating mudslides, as the death toll from the twin disasters rose and [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Seated on a platform outside a regional post office in Sri Lanka's former war zone, about 150 miles north of the capital, Colombo, a mother whose [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GEETA ANAND COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Seated on a platform outside a regional post office in Sri Lanka's former war zone, about 150 miles north of [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The oldest son of Sri Lanka's former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been arrested on charges of money-laundering in the government's latest effort to [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GEETA ANAND ARANAYAKE, Sri Lanka -- The roar was deafening, making D.P. Nimal Ratnasinghe think that a helicopter was trying to land near his tiny grocery [...]

ARANAYAKE, Sri Lanka -- Defying forecasts, sheets of rain were still falling Thursday on a rubble-strewn mountainside in the tea-and-cinnamon district of Sri Lanka, two days after a landslide buried [...]

Byline: GEETA ANAND and DHARISHA BASTIANS KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka -- On a small wooden table at the doorway to this bright-turquoise house in Kilinochchi, the town that Tamil militants claimed [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- At least 37 people were killed in landslides and flash floods and hundreds of thousands were displaced, Sri Lankan officials said on Wednesday, as torrential rains [...]

KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka -- On a small wooden table at the doorway to this bright-turquoise house in Kilinochchi, the town that Tamil militants claimed as their capital during Sri Lanka's [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Leaders of Sri Lanka, an island nation at the foot of India, have repeatedly promised a political solution to the ethnic strife that has caused heartache [...]

Byline: GEETA ANAND and DHARISHA BASTIANS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Leaders of Sri Lanka, an island nation at the foot of India, have repeatedly promised a political solution to the [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GEETA ANAND COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on money laundering charges, the government's latest attempt [...]