Sri Lanka fighting kills at least 20
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Anti-insurgency commandos overran a rebel base in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday, killing at least 20 guerrillas, the military said.
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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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At least 31 Sri Lankan guerrillas and one soldier were killed in heavy fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels across the embattled north, the defence ministry said.
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Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft overnight 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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At least 200 civilians have been killed in two months of fighting between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil rebels, and both sides are to blame, European cease-fire monitors said Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's armed forces launched airstrikes and fired artillery as they advanced Monday on a strategic Tamil Tiger-held enclave, killing at least 28 people, the military and rebels said.
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Sri Lanka's army and Tamil rebels say there have been many casualties in clashes in the east.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels in an assault on rebel positions in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Monday, the military said, taking the rebel death toll from three days of clashes to 89.
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At least 20 people die as an explosion hits a civilian bus in the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla.
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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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Government troops killed up to 44 separatist rebels in clashes in northern and eastern Sri Lanka while destroying three small camps in the insurgents' last eastern stronghold, the military said Wednesday. The guerrillas disputed the death toll figures.
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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels has left 28 soldiers dead and 100 hurt, the army says.
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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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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels has left 28 soldiers dead and 100 wounded, the army says.
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Three Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in a clash in northern Sri Lanka early on Monday, the military said, the latest confrontation in a renewed civil war.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 29 Tamil Tiger rebels, taking the two-day death toll to 44 amid fresh fighting in the island's north, the military said on Saturday.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Friday troops had killed 29 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes over 24 hours, as the death toll from renewed civil war continued its inexorable climb.