Sri Lanka Tigers deny air strikes against its chief
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Tamil Tiger rebels denied that the Sri Lankan military had bombed a base of its top leader, saying the air force had instead targeted a civilian settlement.
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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.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's office has interfered with a commission probing civil war rights abuses and murders that include some blamed on state security forces, international observers said on Wednesday.
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The Tamil Tigers' nascent air wing dropped two bombs on an air force base in north Sri Lanka before dawn on Monday, the military said, the latest daring land and air assault amid renewed civil war.
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Norwegian officials on Wednesday denied a report that cabinet minister Erik Solheim gave a six-foot television to Sri Lanka's reclusive rebel leader and Hollywood movie fan.Comment
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Sri Lankan war planes bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in northeast Sri Lanka after the rebels allegedly blocked an irrigation canal, a government minister said.
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Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir denied Thursday his role in a string of bomb attacks in the country, including the Marriott Hotel bombing, as accused by prosecutors in his trial here.
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: A renegade leader of the Tamil Tigers has been killed in a firefight in Sri Lankaâs restive east, the rebel group said today, the latest in a rash of killings marring a truce that halted two decades of civil war.
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A rebel attack on an air base this week caused far more damage than previously acknowledged, destroying eight aircraft, including a vital surveillance plane, Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesday.
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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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The Liberation Tigers met Sri Lankan armed forces representatives Friday at the truce monitoring mission office in Batticaloa for discussions on the security of their political activists who are working in the eastern town.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s army Sunday blamed theTamil Tigers for failing to attend a meeting Saturday which they had agreed to attend during a meeting with the international trucemonitors and the government troops.
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The Tamil Tigers' military intelligence chief was among 34 rebels killed in heavy fighting in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, the military and a pro-Tiger Web site said, amid signs the 25-year civil war was escalating.
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A Sri Lankan official has denied the government has agreed to unconditional talks with Tamil Tiger rebels, and accused peace broker Norway of failing to consult with Colombo before making any announcement.
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Sri Lanka's government on Friday rejected a Tamil Tiger offer to abide by the terms of a newly-scrapped six-year ceasefire and vowed to push on with a military campaign to crush the rebels.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that the government can no longer ignore the spate of killings by the Tamil Tiger rebels, a presidential statement available here on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's prime minister admits that a Tamil Tiger attack on an air force base caused far more damage than previously acknowledged.