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Pakistan Deploys Army After Sri Lanka Players Raise Security Concerns
The Sri Lanka Cricket Board said on Wednesday that several players had asked to return home after the blast, the first attack on civilians in the capital in a decade.
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Rights Group Condemns Assault On Protesters By Sri Lankan Security Forces
A New York-based rights group has condemned the assault on peaceful protesters in Sri Lanka that led to injury to more than 50 people and the arrest of at least 9 others.
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Sri Lanka Security Forces Demolish Protestors' Camp
Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the capital Friday, evicting activists in a pre-dawn assault that raised international concern for dissent under the crisis-wracked country's new pro-Western president.
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Sri Lanka Security Forces Raid Main Protest Camp As New President Takes Over
Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police raided the main anti-government protest camp in the country's capital early Friday and began tearing down tents of unarmed activists, an AFP reporter said.
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Sri Lanka Reach Pakistan For First Test Series In Country Since 2009 Attack
Sri Lanka arrived for the first Test cricket tour of Pakistan in 10 years on Monday following the deadly 2009 attack on their team that plunged Pakistan into sporting isolation.
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Sri Lanka Seeks India's Help To Counter Terrorism: PM Wickremesinghe
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Monday that he sought India's help to train the country's security forces in counter-terrorism during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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"Leave My Country Alone": Lankan President's Message To ISIS After Blasts
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said a foreign mastermind may have planned the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by Islamic State, telling the terrorist group to "leave my country alone".
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Sri Lanka Maintains High Alert For Attacks Ahead Of Ramadan
Sri Lankan security forces maintained a high level of alert on Tuesday after the Easter Sunday bombings, officials said, amid intelligence reports that Islamist terrorists were planning fresh attacks before the start of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.
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6 Children Among 15 Killed In Raids On ISIS Hideout In Sri Lanka: Police
Fifteen people including six children have died during a Sri Lankan security forces operation in the aftermath of the Easter attacks, as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police said Saturday.
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Sri Lankan Troops Kill Four ISIS-Linked Terrorists
Sri Lankan security forces exchanged fire with suspected ISIS-affiliated terrorists and killed at least four of them in the east of the country, police and the military said Saturday.
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Pakistan Deploys Army After Sri Lanka Players Raise Security Concerns
The Sri Lanka Cricket Board said on Wednesday that several players had asked to return home after the blast, the first attack on civilians in the capital in a decade.
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Rights Group Condemns Assault On Protesters By Sri Lankan Security Forces
A New York-based rights group has condemned the assault on peaceful protesters in Sri Lanka that led to injury to more than 50 people and the arrest of at least 9 others.
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Sri Lanka Security Forces Demolish Protestors' Camp
Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the capital Friday, evicting activists in a pre-dawn assault that raised international concern for dissent under the crisis-wracked country's new pro-Western president.
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Sri Lanka Security Forces Raid Main Protest Camp As New President Takes Over
Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police raided the main anti-government protest camp in the country's capital early Friday and began tearing down tents of unarmed activists, an AFP reporter said.
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Sri Lanka Reach Pakistan For First Test Series In Country Since 2009 Attack
Sri Lanka arrived for the first Test cricket tour of Pakistan in 10 years on Monday following the deadly 2009 attack on their team that plunged Pakistan into sporting isolation.
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Sri Lanka Seeks India's Help To Counter Terrorism: PM Wickremesinghe
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Monday that he sought India's help to train the country's security forces in counter-terrorism during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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"Leave My Country Alone": Lankan President's Message To ISIS After Blasts
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said a foreign mastermind may have planned the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by Islamic State, telling the terrorist group to "leave my country alone".
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Sri Lanka Maintains High Alert For Attacks Ahead Of Ramadan
Sri Lankan security forces maintained a high level of alert on Tuesday after the Easter Sunday bombings, officials said, amid intelligence reports that Islamist terrorists were planning fresh attacks before the start of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.
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6 Children Among 15 Killed In Raids On ISIS Hideout In Sri Lanka: Police
Fifteen people including six children have died during a Sri Lankan security forces operation in the aftermath of the Easter attacks, as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police said Saturday.
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Sri Lankan Troops Kill Four ISIS-Linked Terrorists
Sri Lankan security forces exchanged fire with suspected ISIS-affiliated terrorists and killed at least four of them in the east of the country, police and the military said Saturday.
