The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a formerly marginal communist party, has secured a stunning two-thirds majority in Sri ...

President Anura Kumar Dissanayake gains unprecedented Tamil backing in northern Sri Lanka, promises return of war-seized ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to ...

Of the 225 parliament seats, 196 are up for grabs under Sri Lanka's proportional representative ... to help elect them to Parliament so he won’t need to rely on a coalition to enact the reforms ...

Sri Lankans were voting in snap parliamentary elections Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party expected to secure a mandate to drive through economic reforms.

While analysts welcome the increase, they caution that more women in politics alone won’t challenge patriarchal norms and ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party had just three seats in the outgoing assembly ...

The sweeping mandate to the left coalition underlines widening support for his leftist policies, giving him the power to push ...

Sri Lankan President Dissanayake's NPP wins a historic landslide, signaling a shift in politics. Despite past opposition to ...

Former president Ranil Wickremesinghe isn’t contesting the election ... IMF officials are expected to visit Sri Lanka soon after the parliamentary election to kick start a third review of ...

Why Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election today matters for its future - Stakes are high as election could decide country’s ...