Diplomatic efforts to end an acute and bloody armed conflict should always be welcomed and the persistence of Donald Trump’s administration, which has pursued this goal for more than a year and
The following column is based on the statement issued by the Samabima Political Party. Former State Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department
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During a press conference yesterday, President Donald Trump faced sharp questioning over his assertion that Iran may have struck its own elementary school with a Tomahawk missile at the start of the
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The war surrounding Iran has pushed global anxiety to levels not seen in decades, raising a blunt and unavoidable question: how does this end? Policymakers, analysts and citizens alike are now confronting
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Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams appeared at London’s High Court on Monday in a civil lawsuit that aims to hold him liable for Irish Republican Army bombings carried out in Britain,
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For many years Mojtaba Khamenei was a name that circulated mainly inside Iran’s political and security circles rather than in public debate. He rarely appeared on television, did not campaign for political
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by Our Correspondent in Doha Six of the United States’ leading Senate Democrats on Monday condemned an apparent U.S. military strike on a girls’ school in Minab, a southern province of Iran,
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Sri Lanka is witnessing renewed tensions over land rights in the northern district of Mullaitivu, where Tamil communities allege that their private lands are being illegally seized for salt pan construction. Durairasa
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Iran has been under sustained military pressure from the United States and Israel for almost a week, raising fears of a direct strike. Professor K.T. Ganeshalingam, Head of the Department of Political
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Commercial vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to an almost complete standstill for a seventh consecutive day, with only ships linked to Iran making crossings in the past 24
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by Luxman Lixing Sun’s On the Origin of Sex sets itself an ambitious task: to explain one of evolutionary biology’s most persistent puzzles – why sexual reproduction exists at all. The question
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