Oct 12 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Separate battles between government forces and Tamil separatists across Sri Lanka's volatile northern region killed 30 rebels and two soldiers, the military said Sunday.
Nov 15 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lankan troops seized a rebel coastal stronghold Saturday, establishing a land link to the ethnic Tamil heartland on Jaffna peninsula in a key victory against Tamil Tiger separatists, the country's president said.
Oct 07 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lanka's top opposition party called Tuesday for an international investigation into a bomb attack the previous day that killed a popular former army general and 26 others.
Oct 06 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – A suspected rebel suicide bomber blew himself up Monday inside a crowded opposition party office in northern Sri Lanka, killing a former army general and 26 others.
Oct 05 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Government forces neared the Tamil Tiger rebels' main town in new fighting that left 29 guerrillas and five soldiers dead, the military said Sunday.
Oct 04 2008 - Washington Times
The conflict _ deadlier this year than the fighting in Afghanistan _ has grown increasingly ferocious as a new government offensive pushes deep into the rebels' power base in the northern jungles.
Sep 29 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Suspected Tamil separatists set off a bomb in a parking lot in Sri Lanka's capital Monday, wounding three people a day after fighting in the country's intensifying civil war killed 20 rebels and one soldier, the military said.
Sep 28 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lanka's military says a suicide bomber has blown himself up near a vehicle carrying policemen in a northern town, killing himself and a civilian and wounding eight others.
Sep 27 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – A wave of gunbattles, artillery attacks and air strikes across northern Sri Lanka killed 60 Tamil Tiger rebels and three soldiers, the military said Saturday
Sep 19 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Tamil Tiger separatists and government forces fought intense battles across Sri Lanka's embattled northern region, killing at least 62 rebels and eight soldiers, the military said Friday.
Sep 18 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Naval forces fought a ferocious sea battle with Tamil Tiger separatists off Sri Lanka's northwestern coast Thursday, sinking 10 boats and killing at least 25 rebel sailors, the military said.
Sep 16 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – A bomb blamed on the Tamil Tiger rebels ripped through a passenger bus in the heart of Sri Lanka's capital Tuesday, but no one was seriously hurt because the conductor saw a suspicious package and evacuated the passengers in time, the military said.
Sep 08 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – The Sri Lankan government said Monday it is barring all foreign aid workers and many local staff from rebel–held areas in the north because of the raging civil war there.
Sep 07 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lanka's air force launched attacks on two Tamil separatist camps in the embattled north Sunday, and infantry clashes elsewhere in the region killed eight rebels and three soldiers, the military said.
Sep 03 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Government forces pounded rebel defenses with airstrikes, helicopter attacks and ground assaults as heavy fighting across northern Sri Lanka killed 47 Tamil Tiger fighters and left 13 soldiers dead or missing, the military said Wednesday.
Aug 30 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ––A bomb blast blamed on separatist Tamil Tigers wounded 45 people in Sri Lanka's capital Saturday, while renewed fighting in the embattled north killed 19 rebels and six soldiers, the military said.
Aug 29 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lanka urged civilians living in Tamil Tiger rebel–held areas to flee to government–controlled territory as fighting escalated in the embattled north, officials said Friday.
Aug 23 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | Fierce fighting has displaced tens of thousands of people in northern Sri Lanka, as government troops advance deeper into the Tamil rebels' last stronghold in an aggressive bid to crush them by the end of the year.
Aug 17 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lankan troops captured a massive Tamil Tiger training base with underground bunkers, lecture halls and a cemetery as government forces pushed ahead with their offensive against the rebels, the military said Sunday.
Aug 02 2008 - Washington Times
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lankan government troops have entered the district housing the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital for the first time in 11 years, the military said Saturday as a regional summit opened in the capital.
