At least 16 people killed and 37 wounded as the Tamil Tiger rebels exploded a bomb at the entrance of a department store in a Colombo suburb.

17 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a series of battles in the north of the country. Two policemen were blown up by a roadside bomb.

Sri Lankan government forces attacked Tamil Tiger’s bunkers on the northern border of the country. Five rebels were killed in the battle.

Sri Lankan air force jets pound a Tamil Tiger rebel boatyard after clashes kill 5 guerrillas, military says.

The Sri Lankan military says troops have killed 19 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the north of the island. One soldier was killed in the clashes in the Jaffna peninsula and Vavuniya, the latest in an offensive launched by the military to push the rebels deeper into their northern strongholds.

Tamil Tiger political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan air force raid, the rebels said, in what analysts warned was a body-blow to any hope of ending the conflict soon.

Rebel troops of separatist Tamil Tiger attacked government soldiers in two violent battles in northern Sri Lanka on Thursday. Air force jets attacked military base, 14 rebels were killed.

Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in a series of clashes in the island nation's restive north and one soldier also died, the military says.

Sri Lankan officials say Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a government air force base by air and ground early Monday. Details of fighting at the Anuradhapura base in northern Sri Lanka are still coming in, and there is no word on casualties.

Sri Lankan military officials say the navy has sunk three Tamil Tiger rebel boats during a sea battle off the country's northeastern coast, the latest in a series of nearly daily clashes.

Sri Lankan military troops firing mortar shells and artillery killed nine Tamil Tiger rebels and wounded 36 others during a heavy daylong battle in northern Sri Lanka.

Fresh clashes Monday between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger separatists have killed at least 20 rebel fighters and left one soldier dead.