Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's President on Monday following several years of economic ...

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders ...

Sri Lanka's leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office as president on Monday, promising change in the island nation ...

Sri Lanka's new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has taken his oath of office, promising to "rewrite history" for a ...

The election was the first to be held since protests led to the ousting of former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022 amid a ...

That conflict, between the Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan state, erupted in 1983. The Tigers eventually had vast areas ...

Marking a new era in Sri Lankan politics, a socialist has won an election to be the next president, beating out mainstream ...

Sri Lankans go to the polls this weekend for the country’s first election since defaulting on piles of sovereign debt in 2022 ...

Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday for their next president, who will be key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation ...

The country is emerging from a years-long economic collapse blamed partly on struggling high-debt Chinese mega-projects ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist MP, won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, defeating prominent candidates. His victory ...

China, which had deeper pockets than India, had then not acceded to the persistent Sri Lankan request for a $2.5 billion ...