Sri Lanka push into rebel north leaves many dead: ministry
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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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The foreign ministry has tightened up its advice to travellers in north and east Sri Lanka after at least six people were killed in the troubled area.
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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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Norway's ambassador held talks with Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka on Monday and three military personnel were killed in clashes in the Jaffna peninsula.
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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.
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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 Lankan helicopter gunships rocketed Tamil Tigers in the island's far northeast on Tuesday, the military said, forecasting heavy rebel losses -- but there was no immediate word on casualties.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Sunday it had driven Tamil Tiger fighters from jungle camps in the island's restive northeast and inflicted heavy losses.
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Sri Lanka's army claims to have inflicted heavy casualties on Tamil rebels in fighting in the north.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a Sri Lankan minister with a roadside bomb north of the capital on Tuesday, officials said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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Sri Lankan air force fighter jets pounded northern rebel positions on Wednesday as ground troops attacked 35 rebel bunkers, killing at least 10 Tamil Tigers, the military said.
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Government soldiers attacked Tamil Tiger rebel bunkers across the front lines in Sri Lanka's embattled north Monday, triggering a battle that killed 15 guerrillas and two soldiers, the military said.
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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 Lanka's army mounted an offensive   to capture rebel-held territory south of the strategic   northeastern harbour of Trincomalee on Friday, officials said,   and a naval battle broke out off the island's northern tip.
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Sri Lanka's government said it pushed   Tamil Tiger rebels from the mouth of strategic Trincomalee   harbor on Monday, and that it would therefore halt its   offensive.
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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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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.