Sri Lankan police and security forces on Friday cleared the main protest site in the capital Colombo occupied by demonstrators for months,

Anti-government protesters have returned to the streets of Sri Lanka’s capital after newly-appointed President Ranil Wickremesinghe vowed to crack down on the protests that toppled his predecessor, condemning them as “against the law.”

Sri Lankan lawmakers have elected six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president of the crisis-hit island country.

Sri Lanka’s acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe has again declared a state of emergency in the crisis-hit island nation in an attempt to quell social unrest ahead of a parliamentary vote to elect the new president.

Sri Lanka is in chaos a day after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country in the middle of protests fueled by an economic crisis.

Sri Lanka's embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the crisis-hit country on a military jet to the Maldives amid mass protests over the island's worsening economic crisis.

Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been reappointed in an effort to bring stability to the island nation.