Sri Lankan army overruns Tiger posts
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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 poured thousands more security forces into the Sinhalese-dominated south on Tuesday after a string of Tamil rebel attacks left 37 civilians and three police dead, officials said.
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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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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers ambushed an army bus killing 10 soldiers in the island's restive north on Tuesday hours after killing four village policemen, the military said.
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Sri Lanka evicted hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital on Thursday and sent them back to the war-torn north citing security concerns, as the military battled Tamil Tiger rebels in the east.
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Sri Lanka's army pushed into Tamil Tiger territory to neutralize artillery and mortar fire in the island's east on Friday, military sources said, as the rebels warned of low expectations at peace talks due later this month.
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Tamil Tiger boats attacked and infiltrated a Sri Lankan naval base off the island's far north on Thursday, killing several sailors, while a rebel roadside bomb targeted an army bus near Colombo port killing one, the military said.
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A Tamil Tiger assault on a strategic naval base in northern Sri Lanka was part of an attempt to re-capture their former bastion on the Jaffna peninsula, a state-run daily reported Friday.
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Sri Lanka said Sunday that troops captured a Tamil Tiger naval base during a weekend advance into rebel-held territory that the guerrillas said killed nine civilians.
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About 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in overnight clashes in the east of Sri Lanka, the army says.
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The Sri Lankan navy attacks rebel Tamil Tiger boats off the island's northern coast, sinking five, officials say.
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Sri Lanka's forces have attacked five Tamil Tiger boats in the north, while separately troops have killed 41 rebels and one soldier died in fresh fighting, the military said on Sunday.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 20 Tamil Tiger rebels in a series of clashes in the north of the island, the military said on Monday.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroyed two suspected Tamil Tiger boats off the island's northwest coast on Friday, killing four fighters, a military official said.
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Sri Lankan forces on Saturday ambushed a group of Tamil Tiger rebels allegedly planning to attack a police checkpoint in the east, killing 11 insurgents, while a separate bomb attack killed three policemen, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroyed a Tamil Tiger boat and captured another off the eastern coastal town of Trincomalee, the defence ministry said.
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Sri Lankan troops take control of a key area in the north-east held by Tamil Tiger rebels, the military says.