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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 8 (UPI) -- Seventeen Tamil Tiger rebels died and four soldiers were injured in fighting with government troops in northern Sri Lanka, government officials said Saturday.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 7 (UPI) -- Thirty-eight Tamil Tiger rebels and four Sri Lankan government soldiers were killed during fighting in the country's northern region, a report said.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 6 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan officials seized a supply of high-tech devices while it was being taken to rebels in a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-held area.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 6 (UPI) -- A Tamil National Alliance legislator was killed Thursday when his vehicle hit a roadside mine in Kanagarayakulam in northern Sri Lanka.
VAUNIYA, Sri Lanka, March 2 (UPI) -- Fighting in Sri Lanka left at least 25 people dead Sunday as the military and Tiger rebels clashed, military officials said.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Skirmishes between Sri Lankan solders and Tamil Tigers in the Mannar and Vavuniya districts killed 26 rebels and five soldiers, military officials said Monday.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Security checkpoints were set up around Colombo Sunday after a bombing occurred just outside the Sri Lankan capital.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A Tamil Tiger rebel camp was targeted by the Sri Lankan military Saturday, resulting in 51 deaths, as violence in the Asian country intensified.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The commander of the Sri Lankan army is vowing to destroy Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's eastern and northern provinces this year.
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, May 5 (UPI) -- Seven Tamil rebels were killed and two Sri Lankan soldiers injured in a rebel attack on soldiers in the northern area of the uneasy Jaffna peninsula. Thursday evening Tamil rebels traveling in two three-wheeler vehicles flung hand grenades at a military c