Sri Lanka deployed thousands of additional troops countrywide overnight to help police hunt for suspects in the Easter Sunday suicide blasts that killed nearly 360 people, a spokesman said Thursday.

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement said Monday that it strongly condemned Sunday's deadly bombings in Sri Lanka and called on people of all faiths to unite against the common threat of terrorism.

Three Sri Lankan churches and as many hotels were hit by explosions on Easter Sunday, killing at least 42 people and wounding dozens, police said.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka that killed at least 156 people on Eastern Sunday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced Sunday’s terrorist attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, urging global action to counter the menace of terrorism.

 Executive Committee of Asia Pacific Central Securities Depository Group (ACG) in a unanimous vote elected CEO of Central Securities Depository of Iran as Vice Chairman. Chief Executive Officer of Central Securities Depository of Iran, Hossein Fahimi, has been elected Vice Chairman of Executive Committee of Asia Pacific Central Securities Depository Group (ACG). The decision came […]

Sri Lanka, which is dependent on Iranian light crude, has sought advice from India over its strategy on purchasing oil from the country in the light of tightening US sanctions during bilateral talks. According to a statement published by the office of Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the country’s Petroleum Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has […]

Iranian FM Zarif met with Sri Lankan President Sirisena on Tuesday in Colombo where the two sides called for further boost in bilateral ties. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who is in Sri Lanka on an official visit, met with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday after arriving in capital  Colombo. During the […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Sri Lankan counterpart Maithripala Sirisena met in Tehran today to confer on ways to expand economic and trade ties between the two sides. Following the signing of 5 MoUs on economic and cultural cooperation, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Sri Lankan counterpart Maithripala Sirisena attended a joint press conference on […]

 Iran and Sri Lanka signed 5 memoranda of understanding in the presence of the two countries’ presidents in Tehran on Sunday to increase bilateral cooperation in different fields. The first memorandum of understanding in the field of fighting against drug trafficking was signed by Iran’s Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli and Sri Lankan Sri Lanka’s Foreign […]