Sources said that the Sri Lanka Army has halted general recruitment and is recruiting ... In a recent incident, more than 1,000 soldiers have been deployed in state run hospitals to assist medical ...

Sri Lanka will drastically slash its military, the Ministry of Defence has announced, as the country tries to cut costs in the face of its worst economic crisis in decades. The bankrupt nation ...

Sri Lanka's armed forces are next on the chopping block, with the defence ministry announcing it would retire 65,000 soldiers from its 200,000-strong army over the year. The cuts make up the lion's ...

Armed masked soldiers were part of the security detail around Sri Lanka’s Parliament Saturday as lawmakers met to choose a new president. Roads near the building in Colombo, the capital ...