Ferocious battles kills 18 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, March 21, 2007 (AFP) - Tiger rebels on Wednesday fought pitched battles with troops in Sri Lanka while war planes bombed guerrilla positions, the …
COLOMBO, March 21, 2007 (AFP) - Tiger rebels on Wednesday fought pitched battles with troops in Sri Lanka while war planes bombed guerrilla positions, the …
March 21, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka Wednesday rejected any foreign scrutiny of its human rights record amid growing international criticism of extra-judicial …
March 21, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's air force is considering buying MiG-29 jet fighters to replace its ageing fleet of supersonic aircraft, the top air force …
COLOMBO, March 20, 2007 (AFP) - Government troops destroyed four boats believed to be carrying Tamil Tiger guerrillas in northern Sri Lanka, the defence …
GENEVA, March 20, 2007 (AFP) - Some 95,000 people have fled fierce fighting in Sri Lanka's eastern Batticaloa district in the past week, the UN food relief …
Air attacks, land battles in Sri Lanka after ship sinkings ATTENTION - ADDS sabotage of electricity, new mine attack, air strikes /// March 19, 2007 (AFP) - …
March 18, 2007 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan defence official said the navy sank a ship of the eastern coast Sunday that was believed to be smuggling weapons for Tamil …
March 18, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's navy on Sunday sank two cargo vessels believed to be smuggling weapons and explosives for Tamil Tiger rebels, the defence …
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama on Friday sought international help to prod Tamil Tiger rebels waging a …
March 17, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police arrested on Saturday a government legislator who had accused his own ruling party of striking a secret deal with Tamil …
COLOMBO, March 17, 2007 (AFP) - Government troops and Tiger rebels traded artillery attacks in northern Sri Lanka Saturday as the overnight toll rose to at …
COLOMBO, March 16, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops Friday shot dead a suspected Tamil Tiger rebel suicide bomber in the northern district of Jaffna, the defence …
Mar 16, 2007 (LBO) – The ruling has party has sacked rebel parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera from the leadership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) …
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2007 (AFP) - Constitutional reforms aimed at ending three decades of ethnic bloodshed in Sri Lanka could be finalized as early as next …
March 13, 2007 (AFP) - A top Sri Lankan defence source warned Tuesday the current military campaign against the Tiger rebels could take up to three years as …
March 13, 2007 (AFP) - Eight suspected Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in strikes by Sri Lanka warplanes as part of a military offensive in the eastern …
COLOMBO, March 12, 2007 (AFP) - Six people died in fresh clashes between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's embattled north and east, the …
March 11, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president Sunday chided his top police officers over a new wave of "execution-style" killings and demanded immediate action …
March 11, 2007 (AFP) - The founder of the French charity Medecins Sans Frontiers, who has worked in over a dozen war zones, says there is no quick fix to Sri …
March 11, 2007 (AFP) - More than 40,000 civilians have fled their homes in eastern Sri Lanka in recent days amid renewed clashes between troops and Tamil Tiger …