Sri Lankan ethic Tamil children walk past debris of burnt vehicles devastated allegedly by aerial bombing in the Tamil Tiger controlled no fire zone in Mullivaaykaal, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

When war returned to the Vanni, the vast swath of land in Sri Lanka’s north, it came quickly and left just as fast. For over three decades as Tamil militants fought successive Sri Lankan governments ...

“They didn’t believe that anyone in the international community was willing to stop them, and they were right.” That is the lucid explanation offered by John Holmes, the British diplomat and former ...

The war on the Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka is over after more than a quarter of a century of conflict, off and on, in which tens of thousands of people have died. The final act played out ...