TEHRAN, Apr 27 - A gun battle between troops and suspected Islamist militants on Sri Lanka’s east coast left 15 dead, including six children, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people on the island.
TEHRAN, Apr 27 - The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people on the island.
TEHRAN, Apr 26 - Australia's prime minister said Friday that the Sri Lankan militant group blamed for the Easter bombings that killed at least 250 people had support from the Islamic State group, a day after Sri Lankan officials said they were still evaluating foreign ties.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 - Sri Lankan authorities locked down the central bank and shut the road leading to the jittery capital's airport because of a bomb scare on Thursday as more people were swept up in the search for those behind Easter Sunday bombings that killed 359.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - Sri Lankan police said on Wednesday they carried out a controlled explosion of a suspicious motorscooter parked near the popular Savoy cinema in the capital Colombo.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - More than 60 people have been arrested since the rash of Easter Sunday suicide bombing attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed at least 359 people, the leader of the country's parliament said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Apr 23 - Sri Lankan intelligence officials were tipped off about an imminent attack by militants hours before a series of suicide bombings killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
TEHRAN, Apr 23 - Devastating Easter bombings in Sri Lanka were retaliation for recent deadly attacks on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said on Tuesday, adding that two domestic groups were believed to have been behind Sunday's blasts.
TEHRAN, Apr 22 - Sri Lanka said on Monday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.
TEHRAN, Apr 22 - Denmark’s richest man Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife lost three of their four children in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, a spokesman for Povlsen’s fashion firm said on Monday.
TEHRAN, Apr 22 - The acclaimed Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has paid tribute to the victims of Sri Lanka Easter attacks with a giant sculpture at Puri Beach, in the Indian State of Odisha.
TEHRAN, Apr 22 - The number of people killed in the series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka capital has risen to 290, and more than 500 people injured according to a police statement.
TEHRAN, Apr 21 - US President Donald Trump has added yet another major blunder to his long record of political gaffes, this time mistakenly stating in a tweet that the recent multiple bombing attacks in Sri Lanka killed “millions” of people.
TEHRAN, Apr 21 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced Sunday’s terrorist attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, urging global action to counter the menace of terrorism.
TEHRAN, Apr 21 - Pope Francis on Sunday condemned attacks that killed at least 138 people in three churches and four hotels in Sri Lanka as "such cruel violence" and said he was close to the Christian community, hit while celebrating Easter.
EHRAN, Apr 21 - Several explosions have hit three churches and three hotels in Sri Lanka, leaving at least 156 people dead and over 400 others wounded.