Courtesy The Star online KUALA LUMPUR: The Islamic State (IS) group’s self-proclaimed caliphate” may have collapsed in the Middle East but Asia provides fertile territory for a resurrection, analysts say, as last month’s bloody Easter Sunday suicide attacks in Sri Lanka have shown. Factors such as poverty, discrimination, radicalisation via social media, weak governance, and poor […]

Mihir Sharma Courtesy The Gulf News Attack feeds into the Modi campaign’s ongoing efforts to exploit high-octane nationalism It is increasingly clear that the Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka could and should have been prevented. Warnings about the group responsible, their intentions and even specific attackers were delivered well in advance. Both President Maithripala […]

Courtesy Sputnik International On 21 April, deadly blasts took place in Sri Lanka; the explosions devastated St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo, St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, and the Zion Church in Batticaloa during Easter mass. Some 30 people suspected of being involved in the Easter Sunday suicide blasts have not been detained yet, Sri Lankan President Maithripala […]

Courtesy DAWN The Sri Lankan Army has, for the first time since the deadly Easter Sunday bombings, confirmed that the suicide bombers involved in the attacks had travelled to India “for some sort of training or to make some more links towards the other organisations outside the country”. They (those involved in the attack) have […]

Gregory Aftandilian Courtesy The Arab Weekly Continued threat. Members of the New York City Police Counterterrorism force stand guard in Times Square in New York City.(AFP) The recent video appearance of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his praise of the large-scale terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka highlight the continued threat the Islamic State poses to countries […]

Courtesy NDTV Sri Lankan army chief has claimed that terrorists who carried out attacks in Colombo visited India – Kerala, Kashmir and Bengaluru for training and also establishing links with terror groups operating in these areas. Over 250 people were killed in a string of bombings in Sri Lanka on April 21. (File)NEW DELHI:  Indian […]

Courtesy SBS News Sri Lanka is on high alert and rounding up Islamists as intelligence indicates there may be more attacks with the holy month of Ramadan due to start. Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena says his security forces would “eradicate terrorism” following devastating suicide attacks on Easter Sunday and restore stability before a presidential […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Islamist extremists in Sri Lanka are believed to be planning attacks on bridges in Colombo, the authorities said, as they warned that several conspirators in the Easter Sunday bombings which killed 257 people were still at large. Police confirmed they had instructed stations around Colombo to deploy additional officers and asked […]

Courtesy Adaderana A leaked ‘urgent, confidential and top secret’ document obtained by Lebanese website Al-Ahed News claims that Saudi Arabia had alerted its Ambassador to Sri Lanka regarding a possible security threat some five days before the Easter Sunday attacks. The website shows a letter, which carries the date of April 16, allegedly sent by […]

RT Sri Lankan security personnel in Colombo. ©  Reuters / Danish Siddiqui Three incendiary devices and 100 grams of ammonia were found buried near a mosque in Sri Lanka, local media report citing police as authorities warn of a new wave of terror two weeks after the attacks on Christian churches. The ammo was discovered in the […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara  I request all patriotic citizens to carefully and seriously go through the following statements of four Prominent Muslim politicians. TWO, senior Ministers in the present Cabinet and the Governors Hisbulla and Asad Sali. Also please see the comments made by MP Sumanthiran at a meeting held at BMCI on April 29th. The […]

Courtesy Ada Derana A joint search operation by the Police and the Army has arrested three suspects in Welimada area last night (02). A total of thirty empty bullet casings, a military uniform, 6 national identity cars, Cannabis and several other drugs were seized from one of the suspect’s house. Welimada Police is conducting further […]

Courtesy Ada derana The Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed against former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara is set to be considered on 21st of May. The petition was taken up before the Supreme Court judge bench consisting of Justices Buwaneka Aluwihare and Preethi Padman Surasena today (03). Attorney General […]

Courtesy Adad Derana A person by the name Abdul Sakthar Mohamed, who is suspected to have been in charge of the financial accounts of the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), was arrested today (03). The security forces had recovered 200 bank slips showing cash receipts worth Rs 10 million and 25 receipts of cash payments during […]

Ken Livingstone is an English politician, he served as the Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008. He is also a former MP and a former member of the Labour Party. Get short URL Security personnel stand guard in front of St Anthony’s Shrine Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 29, 2019 © Reuters / Danish Siddiqui […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy Daily Express Colombo, May 2 (Daily Express): The Easter Sunday multiple suicide bombings in Sri Lanka have had an impact on the country’s external relations and on the domestic social, economic and political front. Looking at the impact on the country’s external relations first, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government has become quite dependent on […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Recent revelation that those responsible for the Easter Sunday carnage (April 21) had killed two police constables in the early hours of Nov 30, 2018 at Vavnativu in the East has exposed a serious intelligence lapses. Authoritative sources told The Island that law enforcement authorities and the Directorate of […]

Brahma Chellaney Courtesy Livemint.com The defeat of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq has only intensified the terrorism challenge . The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka rank among the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history, and underscore the metastasizing scourge of Islamist violence in Asia. Radical Islamic groups have been quietly gaining influence in […]

Yashu Gola Courtesy CCN.com By CCN.com: Bitcoin played a role in staging the Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Sri Lanka that killed 253 civilians, according to Israeli blockchain intelligence firm Whitestream. The agency revealed that the ISIS used Canada-based payment gateway CoinPayments to convert bitcoins to fiat money. The firm identified large scale transactions between the […]

Courtesy ITV News The terror threat still looms large in Sri Lanka and an attack on a church could take place this week, the country’s Catholic cardinal has warned. Malcolm Ranjith has raised his concerns in a letter, sent to church officials, in which he claims to have received ”foreign information” that another strike is imminent. The […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Over 800 artillery shells have been discovered at a private factory manufacturing steel wires at Ekala, Ja-Ela. The discovery was made during a search operation carried out based on information received by officers of the Negombo Division Crimes Unit. Police officers also found over 100 empty shells of bullets used for T-56 assault […]

Courtesy Adaderana A report compiled by several former Sri Lankan security forces commanders, regarding the terrorist attacks of Easter Sunday and the current security situation of the country, has been presented to Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa. The committee report was officially handed over to Rajapaksa at the Opposition Leader’s official residence today (02). Rajapaksa expressed […]

Courtesy Adaderana One of the individuals killed in the suicide bombings at a house in Sainthamaruthu has been identified as a bother of Zahran Hashim while the other two men appearing with him in a video have been identified as Mohamed Rilwan and Mohamd Seyni. Police have recovered 4 suicide vests, 2 mobile phones, 2 […]

Courtesy Adaderana There is no government-approved Sharia University or educational institute in Batticaloa district, stated UNP MP Prof. Ashu Marasinghe speaking at a press conference held yesterday (01). On 3rd July in 2015, then Minister of Higher Education Sarath Amunugama had received a letter requesting permission to establish a higher education institute. However, the permission […]

Courtesy Adaderana Nittambuwa Police had launched a search operation upon a tip-off received by the State Intelligence Service. During the search operation, a person named Mohamed Imbran has been arrested in the Kahatowita area in Attanagalla. The police had seized a drone camera, a remote controller, camera equipment, a laptop, and hard disks on the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two suspects were arrested along with 36 sets of white female clothes stuffed in a fertilizer sack and hidden inside a van. It was reported that the van in question had set off to Anuradhapura from Thihariya. The arrestees were two Muslims, aged 41 and 47 years, according to the reports. Police investigations […]

sunil vijaya The proliferation of swords and other weapons clearly tell a story which shows the characteristics of primitive warfare.  why don’t the security forces analyse further this threat! why use swords unless they want to chop people in mass numbers going into crowded places in battalions.    This development is as dangerous as suicide […]