COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Buddhist mob attacked a mosque in Sri Lanka's capital and at least 12 people were injured, the latest in a series of attacks on the minority Muslim community by members of the ...

Sri Lanka widened a curfew on Monday after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in the worst unrest since Easter bombings by Islamist militants and blocked Facebook and WhatsApp to stop ...

Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bomb attacks were retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said on Tuesday, adding that two domestic Islamist groups were believed to ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Muslims in Sri Lanka have gathered to protest a government decision to demolish a mosque that sits inside a Buddhist sacred area. Sri Lankan officials announced Monday that a ...

Sri Lanka is temporarily blocking some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, it said on Monday after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in the worst ...

Thousands of opposition activists have rallied near Sri Lanka’s capital to demand that the government fulfill pledges to ease ...

Sri Lankan lawmaker Muneer Mulaffer has been the target of misinformation since he was appointed as a deputy minister of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of Buddhist monks and lay supporters have protested the construction of a mosque and a Hindu temple being built in an area designated as a Buddhist sacred zone.

Islamic extremists carried out Sunday's coordinated attacks in retaliation for a March attack on two mosques in New Zealand, said Ruwan Wijewardana, the Sri Lankan State Defense Minister. Addressing ...