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TAMIL TIGER REBELS
Former Tamil Tiger rebel killed in Sri LankaFormer Tamil Tiger rebel has been killed in Sri Lanka's Northern Province by an unidentified person but police today said the murder was a ...
- 'Tamil rebels re-emerging': Lankan PM
Tamil Tiger rebels are re-emerging a year after their defeat, Sri Lanka's prime minister said Tuesday, despite the once-powerful guerrilla ...
LTTE claims Prabhakaran is aliveThe report also said that the rebel leadership "will make contact with its people at a suitable time in future."
- Tamil Tigers official repeats claim Prabhakaran still alive: Tamilnet
Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is still alive, the pro-rebel website Tamilnet reported on Friday, days after video of what appe...
- Prabhakaran's body found: Lanka army chief
Footage broadcast on Swarnawahini TV station showed a body that appeared to be the rebel leader laid out on the grass. Pics: LTTE chief Pra...
- Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers plan mass suicide: Defence ministry
Tamil Tiger rebels who are battling Sri Lankan government troops are close to losing their territory and preparing to commit "mass suicide,...
- 82,000 civilians flee Sri Lanka war zone: Minister
82,000 civilians escaped from shrinking patch of LTTE's territory.
- Sri Lanka deadline for civilian safe passage ends
SL deadline for Tamil Tiger rebels for civilians to leave conflict zone ended.
- Sri Lanka launches air attacks as ground battles rage
Sri Lanka launched air strikes against the LTTE as ground battles rage.
- Sri Lanka sends envoy to India
Sri Lankan Prez has sent his brother to India for talks with top officials.
- 30 killed in new fighting: Sri Lanka military
A wave of fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war killed 25 Tamil Tiger rebels and five soldiers, the military said.
- Sri Lanka jets bombs house visited by top rebel
Sri Lanka's air force jets bombed a house in the northern jungles believed to be frequented by the leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels.
- Blast rocks Sri Lanka's capital, wounding 45
A bomb blast blamed on separatist Tamil Tigers wounded 45 people in Sri Lanka's capital on Saturday, while renewed fighting in the embattle...
- Sixteen dead in latest Sri Lanka clashes
Fifteen Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier have been killed in fresh clashes across Sri Lanka's tense northern front
- Tigers destroy Lankan navy outpost
Tamil Tiger rebels attacked and destroyed a navy outpost in north-western Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least three sailors and losing...
- Sri Lanka jets bomb Tiger flotillas: military
Sri Lankan war planes bombed a flotilla of fast boats operated by Tamil Tiger rebels off the island's north-eastern waters, the defence min...
- Sporadic clashes in Sri Lanka claim 30 more lives: Military
Sporadic fighting across Sri Lanka's war-torn north has left at least 29 Tamil Tiger rebels and one government soldier dead.
- Sri Lanka jets target Tiger leaders
Sri Lankan war planes bombed a suspected base of the top Tamil Tiger leader in the island's north Wednesday as ground attacks killed at lea...
- India urges peaceful solution in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger rebels must forego violence and return to the negotiating table to resolve their decades-old conflict, finance mi...
- Nine Tamil rebels killed in north: Lankan military
Battles between army soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels in S Lanka's north have killed nine insurgents in two days.