Deshabandu Tennakoon is the first head of police in Sri Lanka's history to be dismissed [Ishara S Kodikara/AFP] Sri Lanka’s Parliament has voted to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna/National People’s Power (JVP/NPP) government has announced a plan to recruit 10,000 legally retired military personnel under the age of 45 into the police force for a ...

Sri Lanka deployed troops and increased police patrols around a Jewish community center in a popular surfing town on Wednesday after the U.S. embassy warned American citizens of a possible attack on ...

(Geneva) – Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian counterterrorism law a year since President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

Sri Lanka’s parliament has passed a law that grants the government sweeping powers to regulate social media and online speech, which opposition legislators have said will undermine democracy and the ...

KOTTAMPITIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lankan police arrested 23 people on Tuesday in connection with a spate of attacks on Muslim-owned homes and shops in apparent reprisal for the Easter bombings ...