Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN)-- Soldiers surrounded the Colombo hotel where Sri Lanka's opposition leader was staying Wednesday, hours after President Mahinda Rajapaksa was declared the winner of the ...

The journalist’s book is peppered with interesting observations like the fact that Prabhakaran feared the number 8 and would ...

Even though Mahinda Rajapaksa was adored by the country's ... allegations of human rights violations and corruption led to ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa who was the Executive of President during the wartime told off the UK over sanctions against former Chief ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has categorically denied the UK government’s allegations of widespread human rights ...

Former President and leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Mahinda Rajapaksa has strongly criticized the United ...

If the Sri Lankan president was angling for a dignified departure from power, those hopes are unlikely to be fulfilled.

Rajapaksa served as the President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. The LTTE, which led a separatist war for a separate Tamil homeland, was crushed by the Lankan military in 2009 with the death of ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has urged the NPP government to stand by Sri Lanka’s war-winning military. The following is the text of the statement issued by the former President: “The United ...

Earlier this month, Sri Lanka's entire Cabinet -- aside from President Gotabaya and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa -- resigned from their posts after thousands of people ...