Sri Lanka tanks, jets battle rebels as war escalates
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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.
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Sri Lanka's armed forces launched airstrikes and fired artillery as they advanced Monday on a strategic Tamil Tiger-held enclave, killing at least 28 people, the military and rebels said.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has come under attack from Tamil Tigers the day after the rebels agreed to peace talks.
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Sri Lanka's military fought mortar and artillery duels with Tamil Tigers in the island's north and east on Friday as the rebels warned of low expectations at peace talks due later this month.
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US warplanes and tanks pummeled Fallujah yesterday as intense battles raged on the outskirts of the insurgent-held city. The escalation of fighting
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Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers have commemorated thousands of fighters killed in battle amid sporadic clashes with government forces in the island's embattled northeast, the rebels said.
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Sri Lankan troops kept up attacks against Tamil Tiger rebels a day after both sides claimed to have inflicted heavy losses and as another peace bid stalled.
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Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged mortar and artillery fire across their northern front lines Monday, as the military said the death toll from five days of heavy fighting rose to 148.
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The city of Jaffna has been in the center of the bitter civil war in Sri Lanka that has gone on for nearly 25 years.
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Tamil Tiger rebels bombed an army bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday killing four people and wounding 21, military and hospital officials said, the latest in a series of attacks as renewed civil war deepens.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has sunk several boats and killed rebels in a clash with the Tamil Tigers.
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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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Sri Lanka's army and Tamil rebels say there have been many casualties in clashes in the east.
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Rebel and government ground forces clashed and government warplanes mounted more bombing runs Friday, escalating hostilities a day after Ivory Coast abandoned a more than year-old ceasefire in its civil war.
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The Tamil Tigers declared on Monday they now saw no other option than to push for independence in what analysts said was notice to Sri Lanka's government they are resuming their struggle and renewed civil war will deepen.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil   Tiger rebels exchanged gunfire and skirmished at sea on Sunday,   bringing to an end a four-day lull in fighting around the   besieged Jaffna peninsula.
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Sri Lankan troops fought a series of clashes with Tamil Tiger rebels over the weekend, killing 22 rebels, destroying several bunkers and capturing an insurgent base, the military said on Sunday.