A brief gunfight in Mannar, 50 miles south of here, Monday shattered a week-old cease-fire between government forces and Tamil separatist guerrillas, government sources said.
India has called on the antagonists in the bloody, 10-year-old ethnic conflict in neighboring Sri Lanka to sit down together Monday.
A bomb exploded Wednesday in the government's central telegraph office in downtown Colombo, and officials said at least 10 people died and about 100 were injured.
At least 47 members of the Tamil minority were reported killed Friday by men in army uniforms who burned down a village and by an air force helicopter gunship that blasted three passenger vans.
Six Tamil guerrillas and a soldier were killed Friday in fresh fighting in Sri Lanka's northern
attacks on Sri Lankan troops during a nine-day cease-fire called by the government, officials said.
India, rebuffed by Sri Lankan gunships in its attempt to deliver relief supplies by boat to the
sending of relief supplies to Sri Lanka's war-torn Jaffna Peninsula.
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Authorities today foiled a plot to assassinate Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene by blowing up his office.
Five soldiers and a civilian were killed by a guerrilla land mine in Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
Breaking off a cease-fire, Tamil separatist guerrillas went on the offensive in Sri Lanka on Sunday, commandeering a train with 500 people aboard for five hours.
Sri Lanka's official in charge of the government campaign against Tamil separatists in that island
between Muslims and Tamils in Sri Lanka's Eastern province, police said Monday.
A truck laden with explosives blew up Saturday during a search by security forces in the northern city of Jaffna, and at least four people were reported killed, police said.
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A land mine killed 18 soldiers Friday and a blast at a canning and bottling plant killed nine civilians in attacks the government blamed on Tamil separatist guerrillas.
Police officials Wednesday said they are investigating whether 152 Sri Lankan refugees pulled from
The United States will train airport security forces to prevent hijackings and terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
The largest Tamil separatist group in Sri Lanka will set up a civil administration this week in its