Sri Lanka troops kill 22 Tigers in fresh fighting
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Security forces say they have killed at least 22 Tamil Tiger rebels in a pre-dawn ground battle in eastern Sri Lanka, hours after war planes pounded guerrilla positions in the area.Comment
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 34 Tamil Tiger rebels over the last two days, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, as heavy fighting in the restive north deepens the island's renewed civil war.
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A top Tamil Tiger and four other rebels are shot dead in government-held territory in eastern Sri Lanka.
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The Sri Lankan defence ministry says at least 15 rebels and two soldiers have been killed in fighting in the east.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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Sri Lanka's army said on Sunday 28   soldiers and dozens of Tamil Tigers had been killed in their   advance across frontlines in the island's far north, as the   rebels accused them of shattering what is left of a 2002 truce.
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(The Sri Lankan military corrected its figures on rebel deaths in fighting from 29 to 11. Changes made in headline, first and third paragraphs)    COLOMBO  - Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Monday as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
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The Sri Lankan military said it repulsed an attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on a navy base on Tuesday, amid increasingly bloody violence between government forces and the Tiger militants.
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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels killed at least 55 over the weekend, the army says.
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Troops and Tamil Tigers fought fierce battles in northern Sri Lanka, leaving scores killed, officials said as the rebels accused Colombo of ignoring moves by Norway to end the latest bloodshed.
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More than 20 Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the military said, the latest in a rash of confrontations amid renewed civil war.
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Three Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in a clash in northern Sri Lanka early on Monday, the military said, the latest confrontation in a renewed civil war.
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Sri Lankan soldiers killed seven Tamil Tiger rebels in two clashes in the north of the island, the military said on Wednesday.
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The Sri Lanka army said it had mounted   a fresh attack on Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the island   on Saturday and overrun several bunkers but lost 11 men and had   53 wounded.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 20 Tamil Tiger rebels in a series of clashes in the north of the island, the military said on Monday.
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Sri Lanka's military battled Tamil Tiger rebels with tanks and fighter jets along a shared "border" in the island's east on Thursday, with each side blaming the other for the outbreak of fighting.