Sri Lanka says kills 42 rebels as fighting grinds on
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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.
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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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The Sri Lankan military says at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fierce fighting in the country's east.
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The Sri Lankan military said on Saturday its troops had killed 38 Tamil Tiger rebels and one of its soldiers had died in fresh fighting in the north.
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A wave of pitched battles, bombings and an airstrike killed at least 34 people across northern Sri Lanka, the military said Monday, as a Japanese envoy met with officials to try to stop the raging civil war.
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More than 40 rebels and 10 government troops die in fresh fighting in northern Sri Lanka, the military says.
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The military attacked Tamil rebels from land and air Thursday, and they retaliated with artillery and small arms fire in heavy fighting that left 13 combatants dead, officials said. A cease-fire monitor warned that the situation was worsening.
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Tamil Tiger rebels have recruited at least 40 child soldiers since tsunamis devastated Sri Lanka's coastline and killed nearly 31,000 people, the United Nations children's fund said.
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Three Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in a clash in northern Sri Lanka early on Monday, the military said, the latest confrontation in a renewed civil war.
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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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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels killed at least 55 over the weekend, the army says.
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Sri Lanka's security forces killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in a pre-dawn clash in the island's restive east on Saturday, police said, as the worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire grinds on despite peace talk pledges.
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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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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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Heavy fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday as government troops tried to take Tamil rebel-held territory, the defence ministry said, reporting scores of guerrillas killed or wounded.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 34 Tamil Tiger rebels over the last two days, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, as heavy fighting in the restive north deepens the island's renewed civil war.
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The Sri Lankan military claims it has killed 26 separatist rebels in four different clashes.