More clashes in Sri Lankan north
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Sri Lanka's army says it has killed at least 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in continued clashes in the north.
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The Sri Lankan army says it has moved into Tamil Tiger-held areas in the north, after fighting kills 33 soldiers.
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Clashes broke out between insurgents  and Iraqi security forces in northern Baghdad on Friday, a  police source said.
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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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The bodies of 16 civilians beaten to death in northern Sri Lanka have been found, after fighting between rebels and government troops left 31 dead, the Sri Lankan military said today.
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Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's embattled north left 31 guerrillas and one soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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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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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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Civilian casualties have reached "appalling levels" in Sri Lanka's civil war, the Red Cross said Wednesday as the military announced its troops killed 15 ethnic Tamil rebels in clashes across the island nation's restive north.
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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 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 military says it has used fighter jets to bomb a Tamil Tiger sea base in the north of the country.
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Heavy fighting between government troops and Tamil Tigers broke out in northern Sri Lanka Thursday, hours after Colombo announced it was pulling out of a tattered ceasefire agreement with the rebels.
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Heavy sea and land battles have erupted in Sri Lanka with the military reporting the recovery of 22 bodies of Tamil rebels after a Norwegian envoy failed to secure a deal to re-launch peace talks.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 29 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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(The Sri Lankan military corrected its figures on rebel deaths in fighting from 29 to 11. Changes made in headline, first and third paragraphs)    COLOMBO  - Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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Heavy clashes broke out between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's volatile north and east, killing a large number of insurgents and wounding at least six soldiers, the military said Friday.