Police have revived a 17-year-old probe after the recent detection of explosives hidden inside a lorry used by the Tiger guerrillas during the “Eelam War”. The detection was made when the Kotahena ...

It has been eight years since the Sri Lankan civil war ended the bloody way it began with the demand for an independent Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka. Today, Eelam is heard only in the ...

"Eelam War 3" begins when rebels sink naval craft. Tigers lose Jaffna to government forces. 1995-2001 - War rages across north and east. Suicide attack on Central Bank in Colombo kills around 100.

NEW DELHI, India – Amid mixed reports of a rebel withdrawal and relative calm, there continue to be fierce and bloody clashes on the island nation of Sri Lanka between military forces of the Sri ...

"Eelam War 3" begins when rebels sink naval craft. Tigers lose Jaffna to government forces. 1995-2001 - War rages across north and east. Suicide attack on central bank in Colombo kills around 100.

When Eelam War IV started there were 1500 SIOT trained troops; by 2008 there were more than 30,000. Learning Organization. With enhanced training in complex jungle fighting operations, ...

‘Eelam 87’, a 143-page work, weaves through the LTTE’s revolt. CHENNAI: The civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009, but it left many unsettled. The uprising against the government, led by the ...

In the first ever clash between Sri Lankan security forces and remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after the end of Eelam War IV in May 2009, Lankan troops on Friday killed ...

CHENNAI: The 2009 parliamentary elections took place against the backdrop of the last-stage Eelam War raging in neighbouring Sri Lanka. As tempers were running high in Tamil Nadu over the killing ...

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Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has acknowledged that there are “no definite figures” regarding the final estimate of casualties in the last stage of the Eelam War, which ...

IT IS no longer a ceasefire riddled with violations; no longer a “low-intensity conflict”. Sri Lanka is at war in all but name, and perhaps that is what the rival armies had long intended. For ...