'Dozens dead' in S Lanka fighting
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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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Air raids, roadside blasts, suicide bombings, land and sea battles and thousands killed. So much for the 2002 ceasefire between Sri Lanka's army and the Tamil Tigers.
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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.
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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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Twenty-four hours of intense fighting across Sri Lanka's north left at least 38 rebels and one soldier dead by early Saturday, the military said, a day ahead of a visit by a Japanese special peace envoy.
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About 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in overnight clashes in the east of Sri Lanka, the army says.
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Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Monday as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
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At least one soldier and &quot;many&quot; Tamil Tiger rebels were killed Saturday in heavy fighting between the two sides in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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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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Thousands are fleeing villages in eastern Sri Lanka amid fighting between Tamil Tigers and government forces.
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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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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 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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The Sri Lankan army said on Sunday 28   soldiers and dozens of Tamil Tiger rebels had been killed   during their advance across rebel frontlines in the north of   the Indian Ocean island.
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Sri Lankan troops killed and wounded dozens of Tamil Tiger rebels in a series of battles in the far north, the military said on Tuesday, the latest clashes in a quickening of the two-decade civil war.
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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.
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At least 26 people, including two security personnel, were killed in a fresh wave of violence in Sri Lanka&#39;s embattled north, the defence ministry said.