Mendis' book, An Invisible History of Early Sri Lanka, covers the history of Sri Lanka from the time of King Panduka Abhaya in the mid-fourth century BCE to the death of King Kashyapa in the fifth ...

The claims of ISIS Islamist terrorists being behind Sri Lanka’s brutal Easter Sunday attacks on Christians overlay an island nation wracked by ethnic and religious persecution and violence si… ...

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa won his seat in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections this week, but his Freedom Party won only 42% of the seats on offer – not enough to give him a chance of ...

In 1505, the Portuguese came to Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then called, in a trade agreement with King Vira Parakramabahu VII and later intervened in succession struggles in local kingdoms.

In Sri Lanka this week a judge was put in a Solomonic position, having to decide to which of nine couples belonged a baby boy who miraculously survived the Dec. 26 tsunami. Luckily for him, he had ...