A new study has warned that Tamil Hindu nationalist groups are expanding their presence in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, increasing pressure on Muslim and Christian minorities already facing ...

Sri Lanka is struggling to recover from the devastating Cyclone Ditwah even as it was trying to rebuild from a debt crisis and political turmoil, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Newsweek in an ...

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Washington, DC: Mr. Evan Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief for Sri Lanka issued the following statement today: "In the wake of the devastating impact and widespread ...

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an economic crash. Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a ...

The devastating Cyclone Ditwah has left a trail of destruction over 25 districts in Sri Lanka and killed 474 people; among the hardest-hit are those inhabiting low-lying coastal areas and the tea ...

Torrential downpours and high winds struck large parts of the island nation as Cyclone Ditwah churned northwest toward India. By Pamodi Waravita and Mujib Mashal Pamodi Waravita reported from Colombo, ...

President Trump on Monday called for the U.S. to weigh labeling some Middle Eastern affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups, taking aim at the controversial Islamist movement. In an ...

Anti-Islam activists and pro-Muslim counter-protesters clashed on Tuesday in Dearborn, Michigan, prompting a heavy police presence. Dearborn, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the ...

Sri Lankan lawmaker Muneer Mulaffer has been the target of misinformation since he was appointed as a deputy minister of religious and cultural affairs in October in the Southern Asian nation -- the ...