Management of the country’s economic crisis and management of public expectations will be his biggest challenge, say analysts ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s call for unity amid ethnic divisions and pro-people economic reforms resonate on the island.

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has little room to renegotiate an IMF bailout that threw a lifeline to his bankrupt country ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist lawmaker, has won Sri Lanka's presidency in a surprising election upset. He faces the ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 56, was on Monday sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president following his victory in ...