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Politics

Caught in the crossfire: Sri Lanka’s strategic dilemma

By Vox Civis Sri Lanka’s recent political history has been shaped as much by warning as by hope. In the run-up to the...

News Feature

U.S. asked to keep military planes in Sri Lanka before Iran airstrikes

Sri Lanka did not agree to the request, officials said, and has tried to remain neutral in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran By...

Opinion

Sri Lanka has no foreign policy

By Kusum Wijetilleke Without a set of guiding principles related to sovereignty, alliances, security, and national interest, a country will struggle to determine...

Politics

AKD notes shortfall in fuel supplies, urges collective effort to overcome challenges

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) last night noted that Sri Lanka’s stance in the ongoing war in the Middle East is one of...

Opinion

US/Israel-Iran war comes to Sri Lanka’s waters

By Col R Hariharan Nobody among the 74 nations, who participated in the largest edition of the Indian Navy’s multilateral naval Exercise MILAN...

History has a peculiar way of repeating itself; sometimes as tragedy, sometimes as warning. Four years later, Sri Lanka appears to be drifting toward a familiar pattern. This time the problem is not the absence of foreign exchange reserves. On paper, the country now possesses enough cash to pay for essential imports such as fuel, coal, gas and medicine
Politics

Distant war, familiar crisis: Sri Lanka’s next biggest test

By Vox Civis For a small island nation that sits far from the deserts of the Middle East, Sri Lanka has an uncanny...

Opinion

Bringing Easter Sunday Attack case to a closure

By Col R Hariharan Will the arrest of Sri Lanka’s former intelligence chief Major General Suresh Salley in the last week of the...

Opinion

Great Satan, AKD’s failure, PC roadblock, Easter massacre, and rising Reds

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka The upside of an enforced, unplugged existence and involuntary time-out, is that you get to see things more clearly...