President Gotabaya, who is the last Rajapaksa still clinging to national office, has not been seen outside his heavily guarded compound. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya, backed by the ruling coalition led ...

Facing Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis, the Rajapaksa family's appeals to national security and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism may no longer be enough to keep them in power. The ruling coalition ...

The man who is considered the heir apparent to the powerful Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka will contest the presidential election in September, his family's political party said Wednesday ...

The Rajapaksas in retreat: A look at Sri Lanka’s once powerful political family Here is a look at some key members of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa clan - from head of the family, Mahinda Rajapaksa ...

Chamal, then a Sub-Inspector in the Police, declined and offered the chance to his younger brother, Mahinda. The Rajapaksa family was large: nine siblings. In the absence of D. A. Rajapaksa, Chamal ...

Then, in 1998, Mr Rajapaska and his family moved to the US - returning in 2005, the year his brother Mahinda became president. Under his brother's presidency, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was appointed the ...

Sri Lanka's new government Tuesday welcomed US sanctions against two senior figures from the former ruling Rajapaksa family over two notorious graft cases involving aircraft purchases. Former ...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country in the early hours of 13 July - a humiliating exit for a man whose family had been in power for nearly two decades. Days before ...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has confirmed he will resign, the prime minister's office has said, after tens of thousands of protesters stormed the official residences of both men.