Sri Lanka says sinks 3 rebel boats
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Sri Lanka's navy sank three Tamil Tiger rebel boats off the island's northeast coast, killing 18 rebels on board, the military said on Friday.
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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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Sri Lankan troops killed 41 Tamil Tiger fighters in a series of weekend clashes in the island's civil war-ravaged north, while three soldiers were also killed, the military said on Monday.
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Sri Lankan war planes Wednesday bombed targets inside Tamil Tiger-held territory in the north as ground forces clashed with the rebels, killing at least 37 guerrillas, the defence ministry said.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 36 Tamil Tigers in the island's north, taking the death toll from fierce fighting at the weekend to 79, most of them rebels, the military said on Monday.
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Government troops killed up to 44 separatist rebels in clashes in northern and eastern Sri Lanka while destroying three small camps in the insurgents' last eastern stronghold, the military said Wednesday. The guerrillas disputed the death toll figures.
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A sea battle breaks out between government patrol boats and Tamil Tiger rebels off northern Sri Lanka.
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The Sri Lankan military claims it has killed 26 separatist rebels in four separate clashes.
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Sri Lanka's army says it has killed at least 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in continued clashes in the north.
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Sri Lanka's navy says it has sunk two Tamil Tiger boats killing nine rebels off the north-west coast.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroyed a Tamil Tiger boat and captured another off the eastern coastal town of Trincomalee, the defence ministry said.
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The Sri Lankan military says at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fierce fighting in the country's east.
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More than a dozen suspected Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in fresh fighting in the island's embattled north, the defence ministry said Saturday.
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The Sri Lankan navy attacks rebel Tamil Tiger boats off the island's northern coast, sinking five, officials say.
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Sri Lankan security forces defused three suspected Tamil Tiger rebel bombs on Sunday, including one in the ancient central hill capital of Kandy where thousands of people are attending a Buddhist pageant.
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Tamil Tiger boats attacked and infiltrated a Sri Lankan naval base off the island's far north on Thursday, killing several sailors, while a rebel roadside bomb targeted an army bus near Colombo port killing one, the military said.
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Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft overnight in a fierce naval battle off the island's   northern tip, the military said on Saturday, adding it believed   it had killed dozens of rebel fighters.