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 ...

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 ...

"Second Eelam War" begins. 1991 - Suspected Tiger suicide bomber kills former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in south India. 1993 - President Ranasinghe Premadasa assassinated by suicide bomber.

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 ...

In Eelam War IV, sizeable clusters of some 30 attack craft and 8-10 suicide craft operated as swarms, mingling with local trawler fleets to make defense difficult.

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 ...

Eelam war had no impact on 2009 Lok Sabha election results The 2009 parliamentary elections took place against the backdrop of the last-stage Eelam War raging in neighbouring Sri Lanka.

‘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 ...

Since the end of the civil war in May 2009, military parades constituted an important element of the celebration on May 19. Between 2010 and 2015, such parades were held either on the Galle Face ...

Death toll in last stage of Eelam War uncertain: Ranil Wickremesinghe The Sri Lankan Prime Minister, however, hints that the tally "could be less than 40,000".

For 23 years the Sri Lankan government has been fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to thwart their ambition for an independent Tamil homeland or “Eelam” in the north and east.