Chandika Hathurusingha insisted Monday he would remain Sri Lanka's cricket coach despite pressure to step down after their World Cup exit. Sri Lanka started the tournament as a rank outsider and finished sixth of the nine teams, registering one of three wins against the world's ...
Wahhabism confronted: Sri Lanka curbs Saudi influence after bombings
Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom's ultraconservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks. On April 21, nine Sri Lankans ...
Aaron Finch hit a career-best 153 in spearheading Australia to 334-7 against Sri Lanka at the Oval in a Cricket World Cup match on Saturday. Australia's third consecutive 300-plus total and biggest yet of this campaign was powered by the captain's 14th one-day international hundred ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday honored those killed by Islamist militants in Sri Lanka's Easter bombings, vowing support for the island nation as New Delhi seeks to counter the rise of China in the region. The hours-long stop in Sri Lanka was part ...
'Mother of Satan' bombs show foreign hand in Sri Lanka bombings, investigators say
One month after the Sri Lanka suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people, investigators have said the bombers used "Mother of Satan" explosives favored by the Islamic State group that are a new sign of foreign involvement. Detectives said the backpack bombs used in ...
What Sri Lanka has to teach the world
Japan and other countries around the world can learn from the South Asian nation's private sector effort to address public policy issues.
Sri Lankans mark 10th anniversary of end of war; thousands are still missing
Still reeling from the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, this weekend Sri Lanka commemorates 10 years since the end of a bloody civil war that killed at least 100,000 people, from which the scars are still not healed. Security was tight in the north of the ...
Sri Lanka blocks social media platforms after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned shops
Sri Lanka is temporarily blocking some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, it said Monday following attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in the worst unrest since Easter bombings by Islamist militants. Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned ...
All directly involved in Sri Lanka attacks dead or arrested: police
Two bomb experts were among the suicide attackers who struck churches and hotels on April 21 in Sri Lanka and all those directly involved in the bombings are either dead or under arrest, police said. Acting police Chief C.D. Wickramaratne also said in a statement ...
'Save us from the Satans': Survivors of Sri Lanka church attack pray under tight security
A dozen rifle-toting soldiers guarded a small community hall as day broke in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on Sunday morning. Around 9 a.m. local time — roughly the same time a suicide bomber killed 29 of their fellow parishioners at the evangelical ...
Sri Lanka's Catholic Church scrapped plans to resume Sunday services following a "specific threat" against two religious locations after the deadly Easter attacks. The archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, said Thursday that a "reliable foreign source" had alerted him to possible attacks this weekend. "The ...
Islamic State leader outlines 'war of attrition' path forward after 'caliphate' collapses
No longer burdened by territory and administration, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi outlined the new path forward for his group: Widen your reach, connect with far-flung militant groups and exhaust your enemies with a "war of attrition." The deadly Easter attacks in Sri ...
