Sri Lanka has refuted recent claims from US intelligence that there are potential plans for a Chinese military base to be established on its soil. State Defence Minister Premitha Bandara Tennakoon ...

Talk of a tie-up with Uncle Sam to host a military base off the tip of southern India is increasingly dragging Sri Lanka into the US-China strategic struggle Officials have vehemently denied ...

The base currently in the tourist district of Galle will be moved 125 km (80 miles) east along Sri Lanka's southern coast to Hambantota, nearer a main shipping route between Asia and Europe.

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa rejected calls from the United States to close army bases in a former war zone as he celebrated the third anniversary on Saturday of the military's victory ...