Sri Lanka helicopter gunships fire rockets at rebels
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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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WANA, Aug 21: Fighter planes and helicopter gunships carried out strikes on militants&#39; positions in South Waziristan on Saturday.
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At least two people died and more were wounded in an exchange of artillery fire between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels in the island&#39;s northwest, guerrillas and the defence ministry said on Saturday.
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Sri Lanka's forces have attacked five Tamil Tiger boats in the north, while separately troops have killed 41 rebels and one soldier died in fresh fighting, the military said on Sunday.
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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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Sri Lankan jets bombed rebel positions in the island's far north on Tuesday, the military said, as a 25-year civil war deepens daily.
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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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Sri Lanka's cease-fire deal ended Wednesday in a spasm of violence, as suspected Tamil Tiger rebels bombed a civilian bus, gunned down the fleeing passengers and attacked farmers as they retreated into the bush, killing 31 people.
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Sri Lanka's military fought mortar and artillery duels with Tamil Tigers in the island's north and east on Friday as the rebels warned of low expectations at peace talks due later this month.
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Sri Lankan troops killed up to 44 Tamil rebels in clashes in the country's north and east while destroying three small camps in the insurgents' last eastern stronghold, the military said Wednesday.
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Tamil Tiger rebels shoot dead eight civilians and two policemen in attack in southern Sri Lanka
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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 launched new attacks on key targets in northern Sri Lanka, where a week of fierce fighting has killed more than 800 rebels and security forces, the military said Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft before dawn in a naval battle off the island's northern   tip and dozens of rebels, including suicide fighters, are   believed to have been killed, the military said on Saturday.
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The Sri Lankan military said it repulsed an attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on a navy base on Tuesday, amid increasingly bloody violence between government forces and the Tiger militants.
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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 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.