News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:55 AM EDT BANGALORE - Gripped by civil war for over two decades, Sri Lanka is fast becoming a battleground for the two Asian giants - India and China. The looming struggle for influence has Delhi worried as the stage is on India's southern...
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Residents of Kimbulla Ela, a poor Colombo neighborhood also known as a hotbed of drug crime play cricket in one of the narrow streets in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 16, 2008. Members of the minority Tamil community say...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The Sri Lankan military says it has broken through the Tamil Tigers' defenses in recent weeks, ending a prolonged stalemate and stirring predictions of an imminent rebel defeat after 25 years of civil war....
Sri Lankan soldiers of the Special Task Force, take an oath during a passing out ceremony at a training school in Kalutara, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Tens of thousands of...
A wave of battles across the front lines in Sri Lanka's 25-year-old civil war killed 14 ethnic Tamil rebels and two government soldiers, the military said Thursday. Government jets hit a series of Tamil Tiger targets in the...