COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, February 5 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has distributed packages of non-food items to more than 2,000 host families in northern Sri Lanka's Jaffna Peninsula despite ...

(FMM/IFEX) – The following is an FMM press release: Internet facilities and 8,000 telephones cut off in Jaffna Peninsula The Free Media Movement (FMM) is deeply disturbed to learn that basic ...

(FMM/IFEX) – The following is a 24 January FMM special report: Situation of Media and Journalism in the Jaffna Peninsula The situation of the media and journalism in Jaffna deteriorated considerably ...

It's only an hour's airtime from Sri Lanka's capital city, Colombo, to the Jaffna peninsula at the northern tip of the island, but getting there is a miserable ordeal that can kill nearly half a day.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The “Queen of Jaffna,” a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil’s northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Heavy fighting and artillery fire raged on northern Jaffna Peninsula today as the army said it had pushed back an offensive by Tamil separatists in the heaviest fighting since a ...

Several years ago the Sri Lankan government emerged victorious after crushing Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for an independent homeland. Now a new battle is looming, this time in the courts over homes ...

The civil war in Sri Lanka may be over, but you can buy a land mine on the side of the road in Jaffna — though they’re more likely to explode in your mouth than anywhere else. In the main city on Sri ...

Fuelling fears of a return to civil war, suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 11 soldiers in the island’s far north on Tuesday in the second mine attack in less than a week, the military said. The ...

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - As the sound of artillery thunders in the distance, Samuel Vethanayagam warns of more grim tidings for Sri Lanka's isolated north after peace talks between the Tamil ...