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 ...

More than half a million people on Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna peninsula are facing a humanitarian disaster as the government plunges the country back to war. Hundreds of civilians have been killed ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – 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 back ...

A failed offensive by the Sri Lankan military on the Jaffna peninsula resulted in heavy government casualties as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) repulsed advancing troops near Muhamalai ...

(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 ...

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka's military said Wednesday it will dismantle over a dozen army camps in the former rebel stronghold of Jaffna, weeks ahead of key council elections in the embattled region.

(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 ...

A first-time field study of reptiles and amphibians in Sri Lanka’s previously conflict-ridden Jaffna Peninsula has listed 18 previously unrecorded species. The new study includes observations from 10 ...

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.

Thousands of people trying to leave Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula are trapped by ethnic conflict. The peninsula is held by the Sri Lankan government. The territory just to the south is in the hands of ...

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