2006 - Fighting flares in April-July raising fears of start of "Eelam War 4". New talks fail in Geneva in October. 2007 - Government captures Tiger's eastern stronghold of Vakarai in January.

Some analysts have begun dubbing the ongoing violence the beginning of 'Eelam War IV' -- a reference to the repeated failure of peace talks in the 20-year-old civil war in the tiny country off ...

Sri Lanka declared total victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday, saying troops had put the Indian Ocean island nation entirely in government hands for the first time since civil war erupted ...

25-2. As the ICFI statement explained, none of the so-called independent states established after World War II had met the democratic aspirations or basic material needs of the masses.