Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family will remain at the Trincomalee naval base until normalcy returns to the island nation following widespread violence that caused him to flee Colombo, Defence Secretary Kamal Gunaratne announced...

Horrific violence broke out hours after the resignation of Mahinda Rajapaksa as Sri Lanka's prime minister, and a group of anti-government protesters torched Rajapaksa's ancestral residence in Hambantota.According to video footage from the Daily Mirror, the residence...

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the new Prime Minister at the Presidential Secretariat here on Friday, a government official said.Rajapaksa took the oath in front of President Maithripala Sirisena shortly after the Sirisena-led...