S.Lanka bombs rebel positions, army blamed for blast
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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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A loud explosion rocks Sri Lankan capital, Colombo - and one report says the defence secretary has been hurt.
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Sri Lankan troops smashed bunkers of Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's embattled north and kept up attacks elsewhere leaving 39 guerrillas dead, the island's defence ministry said Friday.
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Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in heavy combat in northern Sri Lanka Saturday night, as the military bombed rebel positions elsewhere, official sources said.
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Fighting between the government and Tamil insurgents and a suicide bombing killed dozens Monday, including youths at what the rebels said was a school and the government insisted was an insurgent base.
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A bomb blast in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday slightly injured President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother, who is also the country's defense secretary, in what witnesses said appeared to be a rebel suicide bombing.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has sunk several boats and killed rebels in a clash with the Tamil Tigers.
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A bomb and shooting attack blamed on Tamil separatists ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka staged mass funerals for bomb blast victims on Tuesday after independence day festivities were marred by a string of attacks blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Military officials in Sri Lanka say two soldiers and a civilian have been  killed in a roadside bomb attack.
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Twelve people dead and 17 wounded after bomb attack on civilian bus in north-east Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's Air Force bombed Tamil Tiger bases for a third day on Thursday, and suspected rebels clashed with government soldiers, after the foes agreed to crunch talks aimed at halting renewed civil war.
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Sri Lankan warplanes pounded Tamil Tiger targets in the east on Tuesday and three soldiers were killed in a suspected rebel ambush, the military said.
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A bomb blast near the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, leaves at least five people dead, reports say.
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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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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 troops backed by tanks and artillery destroyed 30 Tamil Tiger bunkers in the island's far north on Wednesday killing 12 rebels, while air force jets bombed a gathering of rebel leaders, the military said.