Sri Lankan war planes kill two villagers
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Sri Lankan military aircraft bombed rebel-held territory in the island's north, killing at least two villagers and wounding another, the Tamil Tiger guerrillas said.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers attacked soldiers and rural police in two separate pre-dawn raids on Wednesday, killing four people, the military said, though the rebels said the death toll was higher.
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Two Sri Lankan Red Cross staff abducted from the capital Colombo have been killed, the aid group says.
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Sri Lankan troops killed at least 20 Tamil Tigers in heavy fighting near a "border" that separates government and rebel-held terrain in northern Sri Lanka overnight, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
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Sri Lankan air force jets bombed Tamil Tiger territory for a second day on Wednesday, as the government accused Nordic truce monitors and a U.N. envoy of misleading financial donors about military truce violations.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 29 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 Lankan troops killed up to 44 Tamil rebels in clashes in the country's north and east while destroying three small camps in the insurgents' last eastern stronghold, the military said Wednesday.
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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 troops killed around 30 Tamil Tigers in a clash overnight in jungle in the island's restive east, the military said on Wednesday, hours after the navy said it had killed around 40 insurgents in a sea battle.
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NEW DELHI (DPA): Two Indian aircraft equipped as mobile hospitals left for Sri Lanka Friday to treat victims of Sunday&#39;s tidal waves.
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US warplanes have bombed a village in eastern Afghanistan causing a number of casualties, local officials say.
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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 sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft before dawn 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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Gunmen have shot dead two civilians in Sri Lanka&#39;s northern Jaffna peninsula, officials said Sunday as the government and Tamil Tigers blamed each other for the latest in a string of such killings.
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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 Lankan troops have killed at least 29 Tamil Tiger rebels, taking the two-day death toll to 44 amid fresh fighting in the island's north, the military said on Saturday.
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Thousands are fleeing villages in eastern Sri Lanka amid fighting between Tamil Tigers and government forces.