COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Patali Champika Ranawaka, a former Sri Lankan cabinet minister, said on Monday that efforts were underway in the country’s east to revive the Islamist extremist network of Zahran Hashim, who led the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, and that some defendants acquitted last week in the main trial over the attacks had joined it. Speaking at a news conference in Colombo, Mr. Ranawaka said a man named Siyam had been appointed in the Kalmunai area, in the Eastern Province, as a new le

BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka — Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, a Tamil opposition lawmaker and the parliamentary leader of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, on Monday called Rohana Wijeweera a “terrorist” and questioned why the Sri Lankan state could officially commemorate the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the main constituent of the governing National People’s Power coalition, while police removed a bust of the Tamil Tiger figure Thileepan from a memorial site in Nallur, Jaffna. “Tributes are hel

KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka — A magistrate in northern Sri Lanka on Monday gave the police one more month to finish investigating an allegation that a lawmaker from the governing party assaulted a village official who was carrying out relief work during Cyclone Ditwah last year. The complaint concerns K. Ilankumaran, a member of Parliament for Jaffna District from the National People's Power, the coalition led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. He is accused of assaulting a Grama Niladhari, or v

COLOMBO: The United States has trained officials from the Sri Lanka Navy and several civilian agencies to detect and respond to the smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials, the U.S. Embassy in Colombo said on Monday. The five-day workshop, held from Sept. 21 to 25, was conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence in partnership with the navy. According to the embassy, American experts worked with Sri Lankan participants to draft standa