Sri Lanka says jets bomb rebel suicide fighter camp
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Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a Tamil Tiger suicide fighter camp near the rebels' northern stronghold on Saturday, the military said, adding it believed it had inflicted heavy losses.
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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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Suspected Tamil Tigers killed four people with a roadside bomb in northern Sri Lanka on Monday while government planes bombed a rebel base, the military said, as a Japanese envoy sought to revive a collapsed peace process.
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Sri Lanka's navy said it destroyed a boat of the separatist Tamil Tiger movement and killed at least eight rebels off the country's east coast on Monday.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday launched an attack on an army base adjoining a Sri Lankan airport, military officials said.
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Fighting between the government and Tamil insurgents and a suicide bombing killed dozens Monday, including youths at what the rebels said was a school and the government insisted was an insurgent base.
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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 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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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels blew up part of a rail track, derailing a train in Sri Lanka's east on Wednesday and injuring four people, the military said, a day before Japan's peace envoy was due to visit the district.
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Sri Lankan troops smashed bunkers of Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's embattled north and kept up attacks elsewhere leaving 39 guerrillas dead, the island's defence ministry said Friday.
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Sri Lankan warplanes on Saturday attacked a camp housing Tamil Tiger rebel suicide bombers in the country's north, the military said.
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Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a Tamil Tiger military base in the rebel-held far north on Friday triggering multiple explosions, the air force said, while a suspected rebel roadside bomb killed one civilian in the east.
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Sri Lankan war planes bombed Tamil Tiger positions outside northern Jaffna peninsula, the military said, as the president left the door open for peace talks with the rebels.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful roadside bomb in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding 28 others, police and hospital officials said.
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The Tamil Tigers today launched a coordinated ground and air attack on an airforce base in northern Sri Lanka, killing five servicemen and wounding 22 others, the military said.
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Sri Lankan helicopter gunships rocketed Tamil Tigers in the island's far northeast on Tuesday, the military said, forecasting heavy rebel losses -- but there was no immediate word on casualties.
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Sri Lankan warplanes bombed a Tamil Tiger base in the far north on Friday, a day after ground troops killed 30 rebels in clashes across the region, the military said.