Long-simmering religious tensions between Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority and Muslim minority are fanning false claims that ...

Sri Lanka’s Sinhala-Buddhist nationalists have opened a new front in their war against the island’s minorities. If for decades it was the island’s Tamils who were the focus of their hostility, it is ...

Muslim leaders and rights activists have slammed Sri Lanka's Customs Department for withholding a consignment of Tamil-language Qurans for more than a year after claiming it violated regulations.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a prominent Muslim lawmaker and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 ...

Baby Shaayiq Faz was just 20 days old when he died. He was the youngest Covid victim in Sri Lanka, born amid a pandemic and cremated before reaching his first birthday. Officials at a Sri Lankan ...

For more than a year, a shipment of Tamil translations of the Islamic holy text from a Saudi foundation has been blocked in a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — At 12:10 p.m. Friday, men and boys in a Muslim neighborhood in Sri Lanka’s capital did something everyone had warned them not to do: They came together to pray. Hundreds ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s government imposed a nationwide state of emergency Tuesday after mob attacks against the minority Muslim population in a central district, violence that has ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Sri Lanka on Tuesday as Muslims protested near the president's office demanding that the government allow people who die of ...

Women constitute over 51 per cent of Sri Lankas 21.7 million population according to the results of the 2024 Census of Population and Housing released on Thursday.The total population was reported to ...

OUTSIDE A HOSPITAL in southern Sri Lanka on December 22nd, a handful of Muslim men bowed their heads against the rain, chanting prayers as an unpolished coffin was loaded into an ambulance. They were ...