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

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters ...

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders ...

Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a left-leaning leader, is Sri Lanka's new president after the country witnessed first election ...

The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president, promising to bolster the economy and fight corruption.

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

The Congress Party congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his win in the Sri Lankan presidential elections. Dissanayake, ...

Dissanayake leads the left-leaning coalition National People’s Power, an umbrella of civil society groups, professionals, ...

Popularly known as AKD, 56-year-old Marxist leader Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president by Chief Justice ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist anti-poverty policies and ...