Sri Lanka's presidential party won a majority of votes in the parliamentary elections.
Iran's Foreign Ministery spokesman congratulated Sri Lanka on its successful general election.
The Sri Lankan Electoral Commission said the people of Sri Lanka cast their ballots at the polling stations on Wednesday morning to elect new members of parliament.
The new ambassador of Iran to Sri Lanka submitted his credentials to the President of the country.
Tehran (IP): Iran's President sent a message to congratulate the independence anniversary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
A group of militants opened fire on buses carrying Muslims to a polling station in the Anuradhapura district in central Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a Saudi-educated linked with Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday bombings, linked to Salafi-Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia.
Turkey's president has said the recent crime in Sri Lanka was simply an attempt to tarnish Islam, but in reality this act of terrorism has nothing to do with Islam.
An extremist believed to have played a key role in Sri Lanka's deadly Easter terror bombings, died in an attack on a Colombo hotel, the country's president confirmed Friday.
New blast occurred in Sri Lankan capital of Colombo when bomb squad forces were trying to defuse a bomb in a church in Colombo.