Sri Lankan officials inspect St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, north of Colombo, after multiple explosions targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019, in Negombo, Sri Lanka.

For many years, Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war kept tourists at bay. When the 26-year conflict between the Tamil ethnic minority and the government ended in 2009, tourists flocked to the island ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe made history in Sri Lanka by becoming the first ever ex-president to be arrested. He is facing charges ...

Samanth Subramanian writes on Sri Lanka’s violent history and its religious and ethno-linguistic tensions, as the country reels from six bombings on Sunday that killed nearly three hundred people.

There is no history of violent Muslim militants in Sri Lanka. However, after the civil war ended, a religious divide quickly took hold, with hard-line Buddhist monks rallying Sri Lankans against ...

Sri Lanka made history once again, with the signing of the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (GCET) by premier hospitality brand Jetwing. The ceremony ...

Sri Lanka’s current president, Maithripala Sirisena, is resisting pressure from the United Nations to investigate war crimes. There were incidents during the war that centered on religion.

A former Sri Lankan president has been arrested for allegedly misusing public funds to fly to London in 2023 during an ...

Sri Lanka's Christians have a long history that reflects the dynamics of colonialism as well as present-day ethnic and religious tensions.

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 since ...