Georgia clashes with rebel forces
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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At least 31 Sri Lankan guerrillas and one soldier were killed in heavy fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels across the embattled north, the defence ministry said.
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Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's embattled north left 31 guerrillas and one soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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One Georgian soldier was killed and three were wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgian Interior Minister Irakli Okruashvili told Rustavi 2 television.
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Government forces battled separatists for strategic areas near South Ossetia&#39;s main city as Georgia sought the upper hand in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war more than a decade ago.
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Rebel forces from Georgia's breakaway   region of South Ossetia shot at a Georgian military helicopter   and forced it to make an emergency landing on Sunday, a   Georgian military commander said.
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Georgia is accused by a rights group of "excessive force" in its crackdown on November's opposition protests.
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Georgian forces seized strategic  heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia on  Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such  victories to fulfil a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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Congolese government forces clashed  with rebels at a town near the border with Rwanda for a third  day Wednesday as the two countries traded heated accusations  over who was involved in the fighting.
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Bitter rivalry between TV stations accompanies Georgia's tense presidential election.
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Georgian government forces engaged separatists in battle Thursday for strategic areas in South Ossetia in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war began more than a decade ago.
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Georgian government forces engaged separatists in battle for strategic areas near South Ossetia&#39;s main city yesterday in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war more than a decade ago.
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Overnight clashes killed six Georgian servicemen in the rebel South Ossetia region, which Tbilisi is trying to bring back under government control, Deputy Security Minister Gigi Ugulava said on Thursday.
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Georgian forces have seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfil a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory, in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift toward war in an economically vital region.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster  the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with  Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a  local military commander said on Sunday.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.