Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Wednesday he had delivered on a key election promise to rebuild the island nation's intelligence network in the year since assuming office.

Amarasuriya’s comments once again expose the Dissanayake government’s claims to oppose communal politics, want ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court said Monday that it would hear a petition challenging presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa's citizenship. The Court of Appeal set a hearing for ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested the country’s former president and senior opposition politician Ranil Wickremesinghe over allegations of misusing public funds during his ...

Sri Lanka’s leftist government won local council elections but with significantly lower margins, in its first test since sweeping national polls last year, official results showed on Wednesday.

MINSK, 5 February (BelTA) - President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Sri Lanka congratulated Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko on his election victory, BelTA learned from the press service of the ...

“Don’t worry, I will control the situation”, former president Ranil Wickremesinghe told reporters and supporters as he arrived at court in a van stuffed full of lawyers and legal aides on 22 August.

Sri Lanka Ex President Supporters of arrested former president Ranil Wickremesinghe shout slogans during a protest out side a magistrate's court in Colombo, Sri Lanka ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --Sri Lanka's former president was arrested Friday for the alleged misuse of public funds, police said. Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capitol, while giving ...