Sri Lanka rescued survivors of the Iranian ship hit by a torpedo, along with hundreds more from a second ship. The US doesn't ...

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The United States is pressing Sri Lanka's government not to repatriate the ...

The Sri Lankan president said the country was guided by neutrality, while seeking to uphold humanitarian principles.

A day after rescuing Iranian sailors from the wreckage of a warship sunk by a U.S. submarine, Sri Lanka’s neutrality is being ...

Sri Lanka’s navy has recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people after an Iranian warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine in ...

The U.S. attack on an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean this week was the first time since World War Two that the United ...

A torpedo fired by a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, whose navy said Wednesday it ...

The internal State Department cable dated March 6, not previously reported, said Jayne Howell, the US charge d’affaires in ...

Sri Lanka transferred more than 200 sailors from an Iranian naval vessel to shore Friday after it sought assistance while ...

It has also asked Sri Lanka to not send back the crew of another Iranian ship, IRIS Booshehr, that is in Sri Lankan custody.

Sri Lankan authorities said bodies of 87 sailors had been recovered from the warship, while 32 people had been rescued. | ...