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A Nigerian militant group promised Sunday to release a sick British hostage held since September 2008.
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- Sri Lanka calls on rebels to lay down arms
Sri Lankan troops recaptured the former seat of the Tamil Tiger rebel movement after days of heavy fighting, military officials said Friday.
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India on Wednesday urged Sri Lanka’s Tamil rebels to “release” civilians, who it said numbered about 70,000 in Sri Lanka’s war...
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Sri Lankan troops recaptured the former seat of the Tamil Tiger rebel movement after days of heavy fighting, military officials said Friday.
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Thirty-nine Somali civilians caught in the crossfire of Friday’s fighting between government forces and rebels in the county’s capital hav...
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Sri Lankan soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels are breaking international law and abusing civilians as fighting intensifies in the Asian island’s lo...
- U.N. demands safety for Sri Lankan civilians
Mounting violence between rebel fighters and government troops along northern Sri Lanka has prompted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to call for th...
- Sri Lanka govt scraps cease-fire
The Sri Lankan government has officially withdrawn from an internationally brokered peace agreement with Tamil rebels — a cease-fire that had ex...
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- Pakistan claims dozens of militants killed
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