Sri Lanka says sinks rebel boat killing 10 Tigers
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Sri Lanka's Navy destroyed a suspected Tamil Tiger boat and damaged another off the island's northeast coast before dawn on Monday killing around 10 rebels, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroyed a Tamil Tiger boat and captured another off the eastern coastal town of Trincomalee, the defence ministry said.
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The Sri Lankan navy attacks rebel Tamil Tiger boats off the island's northern coast, sinking five, officials say.
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Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft overnight in a fierce naval battle off the island's   northern tip, the military said on Saturday, adding it believed   it had killed dozens of rebel fighters.
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Sri Lankan troops backed by tanks and artillery destroyed 30 Tamil Tiger bunkers in the island's far north on Wednesday killing 12 rebels, while air force jets bombed a gathering of rebel leaders, the military said.
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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 Lanka says it has killed dozens of Tamil Tiger separatists in a sea battle off the eastern coast.
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Sri Lankan soldiers killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels in a clashes in the north and east of the island while six military personnel were also killed, the military said on Saturday.
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Up to 10 people are killed in air strikes on rebels in the southern island of Mindanao.
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Sri Lankan military jets bombed and destroyed a Tamil Tiger military base in the island's rebel-held north on Saturday, the military said, in a third successive day of air raids.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers ambushed an army bus killing 10 soldiers in the island's restive north on Tuesday hours after killing four village policemen, the military said.
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Sri Lanka's military on Friday accused Tamil Tiger rebels of murdering nine civilians in the island's south as violence between the two sides escalated after the formal end of a ceasefire.
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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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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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Sri Lankan troops killed around 30 Tamil Tiger fighters overnight in a jungle on the island's restive east and captured a rebel bunker line, the military said on Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka says it fears about 200 foreign tourists have been killed by its worst tsunami in memory after the military raised the overall death toll to more than 10,000 people.
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Sri Lankan troops killed seven Tamil Tigers in the island's far north on Monday, taking the death toll from fierce fighting to 73, mostly rebels, since Saturday alone, the military said.