Sri Lanka's military accused Tamil Tiger rebels Tuesday of killing 17 civilians and wounding 69 others who were fleeing rebel-held territory.
Aid agencies say civilians are living a nightmare in war-torn areas of Sri Lanka. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
The Sri Lankan government said Sunday that more than 10,000 civilians have fled fighting between government forces and Tamil rebels in northern Sri Lanka over the past week, a "sudden increase" in people displaced by the violence.
A crusading Sri Lankan journalist shot dead last week knew he would be killed -- he said so in a dramatic, posthumously published column touching a raw nerve in his war-torn island nation.
Efforts by government troops to secure control of a main highway that links mainland Sri Lanka to the northern Jaffna peninsula came a step closer Thursday when they re-captured Pallai, a palm-fringed village under rebel control.
Colombo has been hit by a second bomb blast in only 24 hours following the fall of the Tamil Tigers' capital to government troops.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up outside air force headquarters Friday in Colombo, killing two air force police officers and a member of the bomb-disposal unit, authorities said.
The Tamil Tigers have been invited by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to lay down their arms after government forces retook the city of Kilinochchi Friday, once the center of power for the rebel group.
The Sri Lankan army captured a key junction in territory previously held by Tamil Tiger rebels, according to a statement on the Sri Lankan military's Web site.
Tamil Tigers claimed on Wednesday killing 130 government troops and wounding 300 others during heavy fighting in northern Sri Lanka.
An attack by a suicide bomber in north-central Sri Lanka killed at least 27 people Monday, including a prominent politician and his wife, police said. Another 60 people were wounded.
An attack by a suicide bomber in Sri Lanka killed at least 27 people, including a prominent politician and his wife.
A bomb ripped through part of a packed passenger train during evening rush hour Monday, killing eight people and wounding 70 others near the Sri Lankan capital
More than 100 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and another 400 wounded Wednesday when troops attempted to advance toward a stronghold of the Tamil Tigers rebel organization, highly placed army sources told CNN.
A key political leader of the Sri Lankan rebel group, the Tamil Tigers, was killed Friday along with five other rebel officers during an air strike in the country's embattled north, the guerrillas said in a statement on a Tamil-affiliated Web site.
The Tamil Tiger rebel group has claimed responsibility for the Saturday bombing of two fuel installations that prompted heavy security, a two-hour blackout in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, and disrupted activity at its airport.
Tamil Tiger rebels used two light aircraft to bomb and strafe an air force base next to Colombo International Airport, killing two airmen and wounding 10 others, a spokesman for the group's political wing told CNN.
Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to resume peace talks with Sri Lankan government representatives in Geneva on October 28 and 29.
Norwegian peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer is to meet Tamil Tiger rebel leaders Saturday, a day after deadly clashes with government troops in Sri Lanka's northeast created a new stream of refugees.
The Sri Lankan air force has launched fresh aerial attacks against Tamil Tiger positions following a deadly landmine attack that killed 64 people on a crowded bus.
Thirteen million Sri Lankans headed to the polls Thursday to elect the troubled island nation's fifth president.
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