In 2004, a tsunami caused unprecedented damage and destruction in the Indian Ocean region. For Sri Lanka, the second-most affected country, with over thirtythousand deaths and five-hundred-thousand ...

Sri Lankan ethic Tamil children walk past debris of burnt vehicles devastated allegedly by aerial bombing in the Tamil Tiger controlled no fire zone in Mullivaaykaal, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

Veramuththu Singamuththu embodies both the pain caused by Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war and the opportunities that the war’s end has slowly started to bring. In 2008, the onetime fisherman, along with ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It ...

ALAWATHUGODA, Sri Lanka, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a ...

The country’s president said the nationwide flooding after the storm hit last week was the most challenging natural disaster ...