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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 10 August 2006 A Sri Lankan army soldier injured in an early morning battle with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels near Tincomalee, 10 August 2006 Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels are engaged
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 25 April 2006 Soldier stands guard at the entrance of the army headquarters after a suicide bomb attack in Colombo In Sri Lanka, a suicide bomb attack has critically injur
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 January 2006 In Sri Lanka, at least 13 sailors have been killed in an attack on a naval vessel by suspected ethnic Tamil rebels. Soldiers of Sri Lankan Air Force stand
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 30 August 2006 Government soldiers patrol on the Mavilaaru reservoir tank bank in Mavilaaru, close to Muttur, Sri Lanka, Monday, August 28, 2006 International ceasefire monitors have blamed the Sri Lankan military for the
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 25 January 2006 Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold new talks in Switzerland aimed at shoring up their deteriorating peace agreement. Norwegia
By Suzanne Presto New Delhi 22 January 2007 Displaced ethnic Tamils at a government camp in Kiran, Sri Lanka, 21 Jan 2007 Sri Lanka's military says it is driving out Tamil Tiger rebels from key areas in the island's east, following intense fighting.
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 20 June 2006 People carry coffins of their relatives for burial during a mass burial ceremony for victims of landmine explosion by suspected Tiger rebels that killed at least 64 people, in Kabithigollewa village, June 16
Sri Lankan military officials say Tamil rebels carried out an aerial bombing raid in the capital of Colombo late Friday. A military spokesman said that shortly after the bombing, Sri Lanka's air force chased two rebel light aircraft and shot down on
With Sri Lanka's economy stifled by 25 years of war, many here are weighing the benefits of a peace dividend, as the conflict nears an end - just in time for the global economic slump. Rebels examine their weapons in this handout picture released by
The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he will leave Friday for a two-day visit to Sri Lanka to see first-hand the damage done by the fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Mr. Ban, who spoke to reporters at the U.N. Europea
Tamil Tiger rebels say Sri Lanka's military has renewed shelling Tuesday of the only remaining combat zone. The top government doctor in the rebel-controlled territory says at least 45 patients died when a mortar hit the admissions ward of the only
Sri Lankan officials say the new leader of the vanquished Tamil Tiger rebels is in their custody following his arrest in an undisclosed South East Asian country. Details of the rebel leader's arrest are, so far, unclear. But it is a blow to efforts
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 08 March 2006 UN special Envoy for tsunami recovery Eric Schwartz, talked with a tsunami victim during his visit to Banda Aceh Province, Indonesia, February 23, 2006 A Unit
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 11 October 2006 New fighting has erupted in Sri Lanka between government forces and the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels before peace talks scheduled for the end of the month. The decision to hold talks had raised hopes of
By Catherine Maddux Washingtion 12 December 2006 In the latest edition of its magazine, the human rights group Amnesty International focuses attention on the status of human rights in three countries: Iran, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and S
By Steve Herman Washington 17 January 2007 Hopes for a political solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict appear to have suffered a new setback. Media in the region report that Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse has rejected an appeal by former p
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 13 August 2006 The Sri Lankan government says the Tamil Tiger rebels have offered to resume peace talks, which could bring an end to nearly three weeks of fighting in the country's north and east. But international monito
Pakistani officials say at least six people are dead after 12 gunmen attacked the police-escorted convoy transporting the Sri Lankan cricket team. Officials report five police officers and one driver were killed and six players and their British ass
In Sri Lanka, aid agencies say a crowded hospital in the northern war zone has been shelled, killing at least nine people. The attack on the hospital comes amid growing concerns for an estimated 250,000 civilians caught in the fighting between the g
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 18 September 2009 A boy stands in a Menik Farm displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (May 2009 file photo) Sri Lanka has pledged to send home nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils being held in refugee camps. The assuranc