Sri Lanka fighting spreads to key highway near Tiger HQ
November 23, 2008 (AFP) - Helicopter gunships attacked Tamil Tiger rebel positions in northern Sri Lanka as battles shifted onto a key highway leading to the …
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Sri Lanka troops reach outskirts of Tiger base: military
November 21, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan security forces on Friday reached the outskirts of the Tamil Tiger political capital in the island's north after months of …
Sri Lanka troops say four rebels killed in heavy fighting
November 22, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops smashed more bunkers and fought heavy battles with Tamil Tiger rebels, killing four guerrillas across several …
Sri Lanka govt, Tigers slammed by Amnesty over civilians in war zone
November 19, 2008 (AFP) - Amnesty International on Wednesday said Sri Lanka was unable to provide for the basic needs of 300,000 people trapped inside …
Sri Lanka takes Tiger defences, kills scores: defence ministry
November 20, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan security forces on Thursday captured a key defence line of Tamil Tiger rebels after six days of intense fighting that left …
Tamil Tigers building up capacity for arms shipments: analysts
LONDON, November 18, 2008 (AFP) - The Tamil Tigers are likely building up their capacity for receiving weapons shipments with two long airstrips to receive …
Sri Lanka troops in sea battle as Tiger towns fall
November 18, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's navy traded fire with a flotilla of Tamil rebel boats off the island's northeastern coast Tuesday, a day after ground …
Sri Lanka seizes funds said to be used for terror acts
Nov 18, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's central bank said it had made the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), an organisation linked to the Tamil Tigers, to …
Sri Lanka troops take two more towns from Tigers: defence ministry
November 17, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops on Monday captured two more strategic towns from Tamil Tiger rebels following fierce fighting in the north of the …
Sri Lanka steps up air strikes after capturing town
November 16, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka stepped up air attacks against suspected rebel targets in the island's north Sunday, a day after ground troops re-captured …
Sri Lanka detained journalist says threatened daily; quizzed in court over writing
Nov 16, 2008 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan journalist who had been detained for over eight months had been questioned about what he wrote, and had also revealed …
Sri Lanka takes key town from Tigers after 15 years: military
November 15, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan security forces on Saturday recaptured the strategically important northern town of Pooneryn from Tamil Tiger rebels after …
Sri Lanka asks Tigers to surrender after taking key town
November 15, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president on Saturday asked Tamil Tigers to surrender after troops claimed re-taking a strategically-important town from …
Sri Lankan troops take rebel villages: govt
November 13, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops on Thursday wrested control of two coastal villages from Tamil Tiger rebels after a series of pitched battles, the …
Sri Lanka fighting kills nine: military
November 12, 2008 (AFP) - At least nine Tamil Tiger rebels were killed as Sri Lankan troops fought pitched battles in the island's north, the defence ministry …
Sri Lankan troops take rebel town: military
November 11, 2008 (AFP) - Government forces in Sri Lanka have wrestled control of a small town from Tamil Tiger rebels in an ongoing military offensive, the …
Sri Lanka shrine praying for pilgrims
MADHU, November 9, 2008 (AFP) - One of Sri Lanka's holiest Catholic shrines stands idle and neglected -- an unlikely victim of a decades-long internal conflict …
Sri Lankan troops close to capturing key road: govt
November 9, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops were close to capturing a key road to the northern peninsula of Jaffna after months of heavy fighting, the defence …
Sri Lanka TV censorship condemned by media watchdog
Nov 08, 2008 (LBO) – Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontiers or RSF) has condemned what it called live censorship on a Sri …
Sri Lanka air force helicopters hit Tiger islet
November 8, 2008 (AFP) - Helicopter gunships launched a rare night assault against a suspected Tamil Tiger base located on a small islet off Sri Lanka's Jaffna …