At least 50 people were detained during a house-to-house search following two bus bombings in Sri Lanka which killed at least 22 people Friday, police said.
A suicide bomber killed 16 people -- 12 of them police officers -- outside a police station in northern Sri Lanka Monday morning, authorities told CNN.
Seventeen commuters were injured Wednesday when Tamil Tiger rebels tried to blow up a crowded passenger train bringing workers to the capital of Sri Lanka, police said.
A bomb ripped through part of a packed passenger train during evening rush hour Monday, killing eight people and wounding 70 others near the Sri Lankan capital
A bomb exploded on a crowded commuter train in a southern suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 72 others, police said.
A bomb hidden on the overhead rack of a bus in a Colombo suburb
exploded Friday evening, killing 24 civilians and wounding 40 others,
Sri Lankan authorities said
More than 100 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and another 400 wounded Wednesday when troops attempted to advance toward a stronghold of the Tamil Tigers rebel organization, highly placed army sources told CNN.
Sri Lanka's air force intensified bombing raids on rebel positions Monday after a suicide attack killed a cabinet minister and 14 others, military officials said.
A senior cabinet minister and at least 13 other people, including police and government officials, were killed when a suicide bomber exploded at the start of a marathon race just outside of the capital city Colombo Sunday, Sri Lankan police said.
At least 50 people were detained during a house-to-house search following two bus bombings in Sri Lanka which killed at least 22 people Friday, police said.
A suicide bomber killed 16 people -- 12 of them police officers -- outside a police station in northern Sri Lanka Monday morning, authorities told CNN.
Seventeen commuters were injured Wednesday when Tamil Tiger rebels tried to blow up a crowded passenger train bringing workers to the capital of Sri Lanka, police said.
A bomb ripped through part of a packed passenger train during evening rush hour Monday, killing eight people and wounding 70 others near the Sri Lankan capital
A bomb exploded on a crowded commuter train in a southern suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 72 others, police said.
A bomb hidden on the overhead rack of a bus in a Colombo suburb
exploded Friday evening, killing 24 civilians and wounding 40 others,
Sri Lankan authorities said
More than 100 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and another 400 wounded Wednesday when troops attempted to advance toward a stronghold of the Tamil Tigers rebel organization, highly placed army sources told CNN.
Sri Lanka's air force intensified bombing raids on rebel positions Monday after a suicide attack killed a cabinet minister and 14 others, military officials said.
A senior cabinet minister and at least 13 other people, including police and government officials, were killed when a suicide bomber exploded at the start of a marathon race just outside of the capital city Colombo Sunday, Sri Lankan police said.
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90
Tamil Tiger rebels launched a deadly land and air attack on a Sri Lankan air base early Monday in the northern part of the country, triggering explosions and damaging aircraft, military sources said.
Dilhan Fernando gathers a fistful of earth and surveys his family's sprawling estate. "What's grown on that field," he says, pointing to lush cultivation on a distant misty hill, "will differ dramatically from what's grown over here." He lets the dirt sift through his fingers, as if for emphasis. "And they will both be superb drinking."
The U.S., Italian and German ambassadors to Sri Lanka received minor injuries when a helicopter they were traveling in came under fire on Tuesday, officials said.
Sri Lanka government forces battled Tamil Tiger rebels Wednesday after the rebels attacked a naval base in the southern port city of Galle, naval sources said.
More than 90 Sri Lankan sailors were killed Monday afternoon when an explosives-laden truck rammed into their convoy, Defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told CNN.
The Sri Lankan army said 28 soldiers were killed and 119 were wounded while battling the Tamil Tiger rebels in Jaffna, located in the northern tip of the country, late Saturday evening, Sri Lanka police inspector Percy Perera said.
The Red Cross will send ferries to battle-torn northern Sri Lanka this week to evacuate people as well as deliver aid, a source at the ministry of disaster management and human rights has said.
Tamil rebels struck the main military base at Palaly in northern Jaffna Friday, marking the first time rebels have targeted military headquarters during the four-and-a-half-year cease-fire between Sri Lanka's government and the Tamil Tigers.
Sri Lanka has accused Tamil Tiger rebels of being behind the deaths of 15 aid workers and a number of civilians in Mutur near the northeastern port city of Trincomalee.
Norwegian peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer is to meet Tamil Tiger rebel leaders Saturday, a day after deadly clashes with government troops in Sri Lanka's northeast created a new stream of refugees.
New fighting on both land and sea was reported Saturday in Sri Lanka, raising new worries that the South Asian island nation may be heading toward civil war.
The Sri Lankan air force has launched fresh aerial attacks against Tamil Tiger positions following a deadly landmine attack that killed 64 people on a crowded bus.
An explosion has hit a passenger bus in northern Sri Lanka, killing at least 58 civilians, including 12 children, in the worst single act of violence since a 2002 ceasefire was signed.
A gun battle between the Sri Lanka navy and Tamil Tiger rebels is feared to have left 18 officers and sailors dead, military officials said Thursday afternoon.
At least five Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded Monday when suspected Tamil Tiger rebels detonated an improvised explosive device, military officials said.
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels have exploded a Claymore anti-personnel mine in northern Sri Lanka, killing four soldiers, wounding 12 and threatening peace talks, military officials said.
A nearly 4-year-old cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels is coming under pressure after at least 13 sailors were killed when an explosives-laden boat rammed into a Sri Lankan navy vessel early Saturday.
Sri Lanka's president has dismissed allegations of corruption following the December tsunami that claimed more than 30,000 lives and displaced nearly a million others in the South Asian nation.
A fiery train-bus accident in Sri Lanka has killed at least 37 people and injured scores of others, according to police, rescue workers and hospital staff.
Sri Lanka's president says she had no second thoughts asking U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to reconsider a planned trip to rebel-held territories in her country.
Wendy Hone booked her holiday to Sri Lanka a few weeks before the tsunami. Now she's determined to do her bit to help the stricken island -- by going there in two weeks time.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
Aid is filtering through to parts of Sri Lanka, but thousands of people are still desperate for food and medical supplies, as many areas have not been reached by relief workers, CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
The United States has pledged an initial offering of about $15 million for relief efforts in southern Asia, devastated by massive tsunamis spit up from the ocean floor by the strongest earthquake in the world since 1964.
People across Asia are flocking to makeshift morgues seeking lost loved ones after tsunamis swept across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to Somalia, killing more than 26,000 people.
As dawn broke Monday across the Bay of Bengal, countries struck by tsunamis in the wake of the most powerful earthquake the planet has seen in 40 years focused on relief and rescue efforts, and said the death toll from the giant waves -- already more than 13,000 -- is expected to rise further.
A heavy air of pessimism and despondency has descended in Sri Lanka amid ominous signs the country may be slipping back into war after two-and-a-half years of relative peace.
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