Sri Lanka says sinks two rebel Tiger boats, 4 dead
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Sri Lanka's navy destroyed two suspected Tamil Tiger boats off the island's northwest coast on Friday, killing four fighters, a military official said.
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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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SRI Lanka said today deaths in the island&#39;s rebel-controlled north and east had raised the death toll from the worst tsunami in memory to around 4500.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels in an assault on rebel positions in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Monday, the military said, taking the rebel death toll from three days of clashes to 89.
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Sri Lanka's navy said it destroyed two Tamil Tiger rebel boats Friday as the craft were hauling hundreds of thousands of steel balls often used in bombs. Four rebel fighters were believed killed.
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Colombo, Sept 23 (PTI) In growing factional fighting, four people, including a brother of renegade LTTE leader Karuna were today shot dead by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka.
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At least 27 Tamil Tiger rebels and soldiers have been killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has overrun four Tamil Tiger  bases in the north-east  after three days of fighting.
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Sri Lanka's navy said on Saturday it   sank 12 Tamil Tiger craft in a pre-dawn naval battle off the   island's northern tip, killing dozens of guerrillas including   suicide fighters, but the rebels dismissed the claim.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 34 Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka, the military said on Saturday, following the government's formal scrapping of an already tattered truce in the two-decade civil war.
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Sri Lanka's defence ministry says soldiers have recovered the bodies of 14 Tamil Tigers after a battle in the east.
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Sri Lanka's forces have attacked five Tamil Tiger boats in the north, while separately troops have killed 41 rebels and one soldier died in fresh fighting, the military said on Sunday.
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The Sri Lankan army said on Sunday 28   soldiers and dozens of Tamil Tiger rebels had been killed   during their advance across rebel frontlines in the north of   the Indian Ocean island.
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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 that it   believed it had killed dozens of rebel fighters.
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Sri Lankan war planes bombed a suspected Tiger rebel camp in the northeast on Friday as part of an increased offensive against the guerrillas, a defence official said.
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Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft overnight in a naval battle off the island's northern tip   and dozens of rebels, including suicide fighters, are believed   to have been killed, the military said on Saturday.
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Sri Lankan troops captured Tamil Tiger rebel positions and killed at least 42 militants, including an area leader, during two days of fighting in the island's north, the military said on Friday.