Sri Lanka fighting set for long haul: analysts
Aug 23, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s latest fighting could drag on despite international pressure as the government and Tiger rebels seek the military …
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Sri Lanka relief ship sails for Jaffna after loading delays
Aug 23, 2006 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan cargo ship has finally started a delayed two-day voyage with food aid for thousands stranded by fighting in the …
US bust on Tiger missile deal hailed in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Tuesday welcomed the arrest in the United States of men allegedly trying to buy surface-to-air missiles for Tamil …
Colombo mine aimed at politician, says Sri Lanka minister
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan police Tuesday discovered a powerful Claymore mine in a crowded Colombo market area as the city hosted thousands of …
Sri Lankan relief ship to set sail for Jaffna after delays
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan cargo ship is to set sail Tuesday with food aid for the embattled Jaffna peninsula but it may go half-empty because bad …
Warplanes bomb Tiger munitions dump amid Sri Lanka relief bid
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan warplanes bombed a suspected Tamil Tiger munitions dump Tuesday as a ship prepared to sail with food for tens of …
Battle for Jaffna kills 646: Sri Lanka military
Aug 22, 2006 (AFP) – At least 159 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and 485 were wounded while resisting a Tamil Tiger offensive against the northern …
Jaffna: The Tamil cultural capital turned killing field
Aug 21, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan troops and Tigers are locked in fierce fighting over Jaffna, but analysts say the arid peninsula is of little real value …
Relief ship prepared for thousands in beseiged Jaffna
Aug 21, 2006 (AFP) – A relief ship was being loaded Monday with food and medicine for thousands cut off in the beseiged Jaffna peninsula as clashes …
Monitors flee fighting amid fresh bid to save Sri Lanka truce
Aug 21, 2006 (AFP) – The monitors of Sri Lanka’s collapsing truce were retreating to Colombo amid fierce fighting as the nation’s financial …
Less monitors to oversee Sri Lanka’s ‘ceasefire’
Aug 20 (AFP) – A foreign team monitoring Sri Lanka’s crumbling ceasefire will be almost halved after Tamil Tiger rebels ordered members from …
Sri Lankan warplanes attack Tiger boat base
Aug 19 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s airforce Saturday said it had destroyed attack craft used by Tamil Tigers in an airstrike on a boatyard in rebel-held …
More clashes in Sri Lanka while refugee numbers rise
Aug 19 (AFP) – Sri Lankan troops bombed an alleged Tamil Tiger seabase and traded fire with rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula amid concern over …
EU urges resumption of Sri Lanka peace talks
HELSINKI, Aug 18, 2006 (AFP) – The Finnish presidency of the European Union has called on the warring parties in Sri Lanka to return to the negotiating …
US disaster aid expert in Sri Lanka to study refugee crisis in Trincomalee
Aug 18 (LBO) – The United States government’s international aid agency has sent a disaster expert to study the refugee crisis in the …
Aid workers demand help for thousands as air raids continue in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Aug 18, 2006 (AFP) – Government warplanes attacked Tamil Tiger targets in northern Sri Lanka Friday as aid workers demanded access to tens of …
Tigers name 51 children killed in air raid
COLOMBO, Aug 18, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels Friday gave the names of 51 school children killed in an airforce bombing of what they …