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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
AGGRESSIVE Sri Lankan government forces continue to push deeper into the Tamil Tiger heartland and are now within reach of their administrative capital, raising hopes that the
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Lanka Page (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Col R Hariharan The night raid by two light aircraft of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) air wing on the Trincomalee naval base on August 26, 2008 may be termed as moderately successful. The two aircraft were similar to the ZLIN piston-engined ones that had raided Katunayake air base on March 27, 2007 and [...]
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Aug 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets conducted two air raids targeting a Sea Tiger training facility and a Tiger mortar location in the Wanni region today.
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Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Colombo, Aug 29 (IANS) Supersonic fighter jets of the Sri Lankan Air Force Friday bombed suspected Tamil Tiger targets in northern Wanni region, where advancing government troops are locked in fierce fighting with the rebels, defence officials here said.
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Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Colombo, Aug 28 (IANS) Sri Lanka Thursday brushed aside threats posed by the Tamil Tigers' air wing and said that aerial attacks by the guerrillas 'cannot change the current military balance strategically'.
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Colombo, Aug 28 (IANS) Sri Lanka Thursday brushed aside threats posed by the Tamil Tigers’ air wing and said that aerial attacks by the guerrillas “cannot change the current military balance strategically”.Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa made the remarks at a media briefing, shortly after accompanying Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama to a meeting at the foreign [...]
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Aug 28 Colombo: Sri Lankan Air Force Air Force MI 24 helicopters attacked Tamil Tiger rebel targets in Kilinochchi and Welioya this morning, the military said.
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TW news-features (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) today claimed that the ‘Air Tigers’ carried out a successful air strike on the Eastern Headquarters of the Sri Lanka Navy located in the inner harbour of Trincomalee Tuesday at 9:15 p.m, according to media reports. The LTTE also said their aircrafts safely returned to the base after carrying out the [...]
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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
RAMANATHAPURAM: Four suspected sympathisers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from Kilinochi landed at the naval jetty in Rameswaram on Wednesday. Claiming they were fishermen operating from Nachikuda area, they took refuge at the ...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) on Wednesday claimed that the Air Tigers carried out a successful air strike on the Eastern Headquarters of the Sri Lanka Navy located in the inner harbour of Trincomalee Tuesday at 9:15 p.m. At least 4 SLN sailors were killed and more than 35 wounded in the air strike, which inflicted heavy damage on the SLN base, the Tigers claimed.
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Source: Reuters (Recasts with fighting, adds byline) By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan air force jets bombed separatist Tamil Tiger positions on Friday after fighting killed 34 people and a ...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Sri Lanka urged civilians living in Tamil Tiger rebel-held areas to flee to government-controlled territory as fighting escalated in the embattled north, officials said Friday.
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Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
COLOMBO:Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday accused government forces of setting off a roadside bomb and killing two civilians inside guerrilla-held territory. A man and a child died when their motorcycle was caught up in the bomb attack at Nedunkerni in the vast Wanni region on Thursday evening, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [...]
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Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Colombo, Aug 29 (DPA) Government troops recaptured two areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels and killed at least 26 rebels during a military offensive in northern Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said Friday.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Sri Lanka urged civilians living in Tamil Tiger rebel-held areas to flee to government-controlled territory as fighting escalated in the embattled north, officials said Friday.
