Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who became Sri Lanka’s president ... supporting the United People’s Freedom Alliance in the 2004 ...

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...

The island nation's new president Anura Dissanayake heralded a "new era of renaissance" as he was sworn in on Monday. Here is ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ...

Yet many Sri Lankans continue to demand fundamental change. It is not only swingeing austerity that angers them: they are ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake rose from a humble background to the pinnacle of leadership in Sri Lanka, presenting ...

Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...

Left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's 10th president on Sept. 22, marking the end of the ...

JVP/NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has made a revelation. He has said, at a political rally in Thambuttegama, that the JVP had posters printed for Mahinda Rajapaksa’s 2005 presidential election ...

You voted for Maithripala Sirisena in 2015 while the Sourthen people voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa ... he told a public rally in Jaffna. "Anura Kumara Dissanayake should tender an apology to ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... demanding the resignation of the then-President Rajapaksa. Although he has been a leftist in the past, Dissanayake now professes economic freedom and promises welfare ...