Heavy fighting erupts in northern Sri Lanka
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Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in heavy combat in northern Sri Lanka Saturday night, as the military bombed rebel positions elsewhere, official sources 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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Rebels mounted a fierce offensive Saturday in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna Peninsula, the heart of the island's Tamil minority, military officials and the rebels said amid the heaviest fighting since the two sides signed a 2002 cease-fire.
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Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan troops fought fierce battles in the north at the weekend, leaving several combatants dead or wounded, according to conflicting statements from both sides Sunday.
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COLOMBO: A curfew was slapped on north-eastern Sri Lanka on Friday as pro-government activists clashed with Tiger rebels commemorating 17,800 comrades killed fighting government forces, police said.
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Sri Lanka's air force bombed rebel positions in the far north on Saturday, targeting a gathering of Tamil Tiger leaders, while ground battles killed 10 rebels, the military said.
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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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Sri Lankan troops killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels and three soldiers died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continued in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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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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Both sides claim heavy casualties in fresh fighting between the Sri Lankan forces and Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has used fighter jets to bomb a Tamil Tiger sea base in the north of the country.
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Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels attacked an air force base in the island's north before dawn on Monday and heavy explosions and gunfire could be heard, the Defense Ministry said.
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A sea battle breaks out between government patrol boats and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northern sea.
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One Sri Lankan soldier was killed and 11 were injured in a clash with Tamil Tiger rebels in the far north of the island, the military said on Saturday, adding that it believed the Tigers had suffered heavy casualties.
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Sri Lankan war planes Wednesday bombed targets inside Tamil Tiger-held territory in the north as ground forces clashed with the rebels, killing at least 37 guerrillas, the defence ministry said.
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More than a dozen suspected Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in fresh fighting in the island's embattled north, the defence ministry said Saturday.
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More than 20 Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the military said, the latest in a rash of confrontations amid renewed civil war.