Georgia clashes with rebel forces
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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TBILISI  - Armed men abducted eight Georgian civilians in Georgia&#39;s breakaway region of South Ossetia, an area that last month saw fighting between Tbilisi and Ossetian forces, police said.
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At least 27 Tamil Tiger rebels and soldiers have been killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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US troops are engaged in intense clashes on two fronts in Iraq, with Shi&#39;ite rebels in eastern Baghdad and Sunni insurgents west of the capital in Fallujah.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed on Saturday to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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Nepalese authorities say security forces have clashed with Maoist rebels in two western districts.
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Bitter rivalry between TV stations accompanies Georgia's tense presidential election.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
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Georgia is accused by a rights group of "excessive force" in its crackdown on November's opposition protests.
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Georgia's president claimed Thursday that his troops established control over a rebellious region after three days of clashes, but the defiant local leader targeted in the armed operation escaped.
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Tension between Russia and Georgia has escalated dramatically following recent clashes between Georgia and two pro-Russia breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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More than 20 Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the military said, the latest in a rash of confrontations amid renewed civil war.
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18 August 2004 -- Georgia says three of its soldiers were killed in the latest fighting with forces from the country&#39;s South Ossetia separatist region.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s fragile border region with Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a local military commander said on Sunday.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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Hundreds of ethnic Georgians confronted Russian peacekeeping forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia on Thursday, throwing paint and gasoline on the troops and forcing them to stop blocking a road project, officials said.
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Dozens of Taliban insurgents have been   killed in the latest clashes in the Afghan south where foreign   and government forces have been engaged in fierce combat in   recent weeks.