Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 02:55:52 +0000
Sri Lankan security forces exchanged fire with suspected Islamic State affiliated militants and killed at least four of them in the east
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:43:48 +0000
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Catholic churches in Sri Lanka canceled all Sunday Masses until further notice over concerns that they remain a top target of Islamic State-linked extremists, even as authorities said Friday a suspected local leader blew himself up in the Easter suicide bombings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:43:29 +0000
Sri Lanka fears its lucrative tourism industry could see arrivals drop up to 30 percent, with losses of $1.5 billion this year.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:19:37 +0000
Government dysfunction and an intelligence failure that preceded the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka are traced to simmering divisions between the president and prime minister after a weekslong political crisis that crippled the country last year.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:34:06 +0000
Sri Lanka’s top defense official resigned on Thursday over security failures that led to the deadly Easter bombings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:38:28 +0000
Sri Lanka’s prime minister has acknowledged to The Associated Press that minority Ahmadi Muslims have faced attacks since the Easter bombings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:46:17 +0000
Hundreds of Ahmadi Muslims, who finally found peace in Sri Lanka, fear backlash after the Easter bombings that killed over 350 people.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:08:51 +0000
The father of two of the suspected Easter suicide bombers was arrested on suspicion of aiding his sons, Sri Lanka’s former navy chief said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 08:37:58 +0000
The warning in the April 11 letter was plain: A local group was planning a suicide terror attack against churches in Sri Lanka.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:38:43 +0000
An improvised pipe bomb discovered close to Colombo’s main airport was successfully defused by the Sri Lanka airforce, police said.
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