NEW DELHI, Dec. 23 -- Ethnic Tamil rebels attacked a military convoy in northern Sri Lanka on Friday, killing 13 navy troops in the worst such incident since a 2002 cease-fire, the Sri Lankan ...

A bomb ripped through a bus as it stopped at a military checkpoint in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday, killing 16 civilians and wounding 25 others, the military said, blaming separatist Tamil rebels.

SATTAHIP, Thailand, Sept. 18 -- Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels today gave their clearest commitment yet to peacefully settling the nation's 19-year civil war, demanding only self-determination ...

Tamil rebels holed up in ever-diminishing territory in northern Sri Lanka forcibly recruited children to take part in final defences against government troops, according to a former senior official.

Sri Lankan soldiers routed ethnic Tamil rebels from a key town after weeks of heavy fighting, the military said, and thousands of Tamil civilians fled their homes because of the battles.

Sri Lankan authorities questioned the new leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels Friday after he was arrested in Southeast Asia and flown to this island nation. Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the insurgent ...

The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat Sunday in their quarter-century struggle against the Sri Lankan government and offered to lay down their weapons to protect those still alive. However, military off… ...

The cease-fire in Sri Lanka has held for nearly two years, the longest running peace since civil war began 20 years ago. But observers say the Tamil Tiger rebels appear to be using the lull to ...

The group also accused the Tamil Tiger rebels of holding the civilians as virtual hostages in the area and shooting those who tried to escape.

In times of crisis, envy the authoritarians. Veterans of a long guerrilla war, the Tamil rebels who control northern Sri Lanka moved with military precision to help victims of ...