Tigers hit Sri Lanka army bases with artillery, mortars
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Tamil Tiger rebels pounded military bases in northeastern Sri Lanka with heavy artillery and mortar bombs, sparking a battle with government troops in which at least 20 civilians were wounded, officials said.
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Sri Lankan war planes bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in northeast Sri Lanka after the rebels allegedly blocked an irrigation canal, a government minister said.
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Troops and Tamil Tigers fought fierce battles in northern Sri Lanka, leaving scores killed, officials said as the rebels accused Colombo of ignoring moves by Norway to end the latest bloodshed.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 36 Tamil Tigers in the island's north, taking the death toll from fierce fighting at the weekend to 79, most of them rebels, the military said on Monday.
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The Tamil Tigers launched a ground and air assault on an air force base in northern Sri Lanka early Monday, military officials said, in one of the most brazen rebel attacks on a military target here in months.
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The Sri Lankan military says at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fierce fighting in the country's east.
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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 Lanka army said it had mounted   a fresh attack on Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the island   on Saturday and overrun several bunkers but lost 11 men and had   53 wounded.
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Sri Lanka's army said on Sunday 28   soldiers and dozens of Tamil Tigers had been killed in their   advance across frontlines in the island's far north, as the   rebels accused them of shattering what is left of a 2002 truce.
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Sri Lanka's army chief has vowed to drive out Tiger guerrillas from the island's restive east as dozens of civilians fled their shelters amid a lull in shelling.
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Tamil Tiger guerrillas in green-striped camouflage assaulted a mock government fort with gunfire, rockets and explosives Friday at a secret training base in separatist-held territory in northern Sri Lanka.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels dropped two bombs on an army base adjoining a Sri Lankan airport in an air and ground attack on Monday, military officials said.
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Government troops attacked separatist Tamil bunkers along the front lines in Sri Lanka's embattled north, triggering gunbattles that killed 34 rebels and one soldier, the military said Friday.
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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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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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Heavy fighting raged in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the defence ministry said, reporting that 49 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers were killed in weekend battles.
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At least 40 Tiger rebels, five troopers and two civilians were killed when troops repulsed an attack by the guerrillas on army camps and the town of Muttur in northeastern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.