Tamil Tiger rebels rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a naval road convoy in central Sri Lanka today, killing at least 92 sailors who were going on leave, in what the military described as a cold-blooded massacre.

More than 200 Tamil Tiger rebels and 43 soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting in northern Sri Lanka, the government said today.

Sri Lankan fighter jets pounded Tamil Tiger positions on besieged Jaffna peninsula today.

Sri Lanka’s air force today pounded Tamil Tiger rebel positions in the country’s north, military officials said.

The British Foreign Office today broadened its travel warning for Sri Lanka to include an eastern area where the massacre of 10 Muslims sparked violent riots this week.

THE Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels have told Norwegian mediators they are willing to return to peace talks without conditions.

A battle raging in northern Sri Lanka between government troops and Tamil rebels has killed 185 combatants over the past six days, government officials said today.

Sri Lanka’s military has lost 28 soldiers in three days of artillery attacks as it advanced on Tamil Tiger rebel strongholds, officials said today.

Sri Lanka’s navy and ethnic Tamil rebels engaged in a high-sea gun battle that lasted until dawn today, the military said, claiming to have sunk 12 rebel boats, including five suicide craft, and killing about 80 rebels.

Sri Lanka’s armed forces and Tamil Tiger rebels traded artillery fire overnight, as the military advanced on a strategic Tiger-held enclave in the northeast in an assault that has killed at least 79 people, the military said today.

FIGHTING between Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels and security forces has forced at least 204,000 people from their homes in the eastern and northern parts of the country, the UN food agency warned yesterday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross today said it would send a passenger ferry to northern Sri Lanka to evacuate foreign nationals.

Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers raided a university, seizing computers and detaining a student, in the northern Tamil heartland where the government has been battling separatist rebels, the military and a pro-rebel website said today.

INTERNATIONAL truce monitors have warned it is likely hundreds of civilians have been killed so far this month in Sri Lanka’s worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire.

Fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka has claimed the lives of at least 700 rebels and 106 soldiers in less than a week, the military said today.

Soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels traded artillery and mortar fire in northern Sri Lanka today, an official said, as schools closed in the capital over fears that civilians could be targeted by insurgent bombings.

PAKISTAN’S top envoy has escaped a mine blast which killed seven people as Tamil Tiger rebels accused Sri Lanka of bombing an orphanage and killing 61 amid ferocious battles elsewhere.

The Tamil Tiger rebels ruled out peace talks as battles raged in Sri Lanka’s north and east.

Heavy fighting broke out in northeastern Sri Lanka today between Tamil rebels and government troops seeking to end a rebel blockade of a reservoir, and at least five soldiers were killed, officials said.

Sri Lanka’s government said today it has no plans to withdraw from its ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels despite a regional Tiger leader declaring the accord dead because of air and artillery assaults on rebel territory.

A top Japanese peace envoy said today he would travel to northern Sri Lanka to confer with Tamil Tiger rebels despite reports that the insurgents’ chief has rejected any meeting with the envoy.

MINE explosions killed five troops yesterday, and police found five decapitated bodies dumped in a rubber plantation, as violence that has pushed Sri Lanka to the brink of civil war showed no signs of letting up.

Mine explosions killed five government military personnel today, and police found five decapitated bodies dumped in a rubber plantation, as violence that has pushed Sri Lanka to the brink of civil war showed no signs of letting up.

The Tamil Tiger rebels accused the Sri Lankan navy today of barring Tamil fishermen from going to the sea, a day after suspected insurgents rammed a fishing boat packed with explosives into a navy vessel, killing 13 sailors.

Residents in Sri Lanka’s Tamil heartland were forbidden from leaving their homes today after a mob of angry Tamils hacked a top police officer to death and threw stones at military vehicles.

Snipers, believed to be Tamil Tiger rebels, killed a top Tamil politician in the northern Tamil city of Jaffna, in Sri Lanka, today, military officials said.

Tamil Tiger rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack on a fuel-laden ship that left seven people dead and raised questions about Sri Lanka's maritime safety.

Women rebels attacked a Sri Lankan police camp before dawn today, killing 16 policemen, two civilians and wounding 18 others.

Gunbattles between rebels and the Sri Lankan military left at least seven Tamil Tigers and two civilians dead.

The Sri Lankan government says the only way to end the Tamil separatist insurgency is full-scale war.

Air force jets have attacked Tamil rebel bases in northern Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan air force planes have bombed and destroyed a Tamil rebel base in northern Sri Lanka.