Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL and ZEINA KARAM COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — No longer burdened by territory and administration, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi outlined the […]
Source: Associated Press By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Catholic cardinal received “foreign information” that attempts would be made this week to attack a church and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Adam Taylor and Joanna Slater More than a week after devastating bombings in Sri Lanka, a government minister and a U.S. diplomat warned that the group that carried out […]
Web Desk MAY 1, 2019 The Ahmadi community in Sri Lanka is worried about backlash in their country of refuge after the Easter attacks. Many of them fled from Pakistan […]
Web Desk MAY 1, 2019 The Ahmadi community in Sri Lanka is worried about backlash in their country of refuge after the Easter attacks. Many of them fled from Pakistan […]
April 29, 2019 Ensure Safety of South Asians Vulnerable Since Easter Sunday Bombings Show More ServicesPrint EXPAND A Sri Lankan Muslim walks past patrolling army soldiers in Colombo, Sri Lanka […]
Source: Independent People who have covered their faces for over 20 years are now afraid to leave their homes. Once again, it’s women who are being targeted by extremists and […]
More than 1,000 refugees, mainly Ahmadi Muslims from Pakistan, under police protection Jack Power, Joe Humphreys Ahmadi refugees from Pakistan at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Centre in Pasyala, Sri Lanka, […]
Sri Lanka isn’t the only country under the threat of Isis fighters. Reports have emerged that militant gangs, potentially linked to the terror group, are taking control in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh – and we’ve […]
Source: BBC News The alleged ringleader behind Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings was killed in the attacks, President Maithripala Sirisena said. Mr Sirisena said Zahran Hashim, a radical preacher, died […]
Source: Slate By RUTH GRAHAM To most people, former President Barack Obama’s tweet about the brutal terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday read as standard post-presidential material: correct, sensible, and […]
Source: The Atlantic By Graeme Wood Today the Sri Lankan government named a culprit in Sunday’s coordinated bomb blasts, which killed almost 300 people at Easter services and in hotels […]
Source: The New Yorker By Isaac Chotiner On Easter Sunday, terrorists slaughtered nearly three hundred people in Sri Lanka, in coördinated attacks at three churches and three luxury hotels. The government has […]
April 26, 2019, In signs that the Sri Lankan terror bombings have put a strain on social relations in that country, several Pakistani refugees were violently attacked by locals […]
Sri Lankan navy soldiers perform security checks on motorists at a road in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 25, 2019. Sri Lanka banned drones and unmanned aircraft and set off more controlled detonations of suspicious items Thursday four days after suicide bombing attacks killed more than 350 people in and […]
Faith leaders say local youths were radicalised by extremist preacher Mohammed Zahran Hashim Michael Safi in Mawanella @safimichael Fri 26 Apr 2019 Sri Lankan Muslims gather in Colombo on 26 […]
Communities worry the Islamic State-claimed attack that killed around 250 people will bring both government and mob retaliation 25 April 2019 Ahmadi Muslim refugees at a community center where […]
APR 25, 2019 AFP ARTICLE HISTORY COLOMBO – Hundreds of Muslim refugees in western Sri Lanka have taken refuge in mosques and a police station after facing intimidation following the […]
What the ISIL bombers behind the slaughter in Sri Lanka share with all the other terrorists who have tortured our world in recent years This undated image posted by the Islamic State group’s Aamaq news agency on April 23, 2019, purports to show Mohammed Cassim Zaharan, also known as Zaharan […]
Source: Reuters By Alasdair Pal and Sunil Kataria At least 359 people perished in the coordinated series of blasts targeting churches and hotels. Church leaders believe the final toll from […]