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Troops of 57 Division on multi-pronged offensive towards LTTE’s main administrative base, Kilinochchi built-up, have reached to a significant milestone gaining control over the strategically vital Terumurikandy junction last evening, 10 December. According to the defence sources in battlefront, military formations attached to 57 Division advanced from north of Kokavil and east of Akkarayankulam gained [...]

Troops of the 59 Division, now consolidating positions North of Kumulamunai in the Mullaittivu battlefront today (Nov 26), have engaged with a group of terrorists in a fierce confrontation and have reportedly uncovered 5 slain bodies, Wanni security sources said. According to Wanni military sources, terrorists have suffered serious damages in the fighting which lasted [...]

4 LTTE attack crafts were destroyed, 14 terrorists killed and as many others reported injured in a fierce sea battle that irrupted between naval craft and sea tigers off Nagar-Kovil in the northern waters, today (November 1) at around 05.45 a.m. According to the latest reports received, 16 terrorists were wounded in the fighting. In [...]

Kelanitissa loses capacity to generate 275 mega watts: Tuesday’s failure to shoot down a single LTTE aircraft despite timely detection by radar has jolted the SLAF into investigating its limitations amidst evidence that the enemy has acquired a capability to neutralise the threat of a heat seeking missile attack. An authoritative source said that Chinese [...]

The Kilinochchi battlefront has been intensely active since this morning (Oct 18) as troops of 57 Division have cleared the LTTE built earth bund from both east and the west of Akkarayankulam tank, battlefield sources said. According to the sources, troops have run at the LTTE defence kept along the earth bund and entered into [...]

Two persons, including the female suicide bomber, died while five others were injured in the attack in Boralesgamuwa this morning, Kalubowila hospital sources said. The deceased, a surveyor, happens to be the uncle of a doctor at the hospital who was attending to the injured, sources added.

Death toll of the LTTE suicide attack was raised to 27 as one of the victims suffered critical injuries succumbed to his injuries while being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Anuradhapura teaching hospital yesterday, 06 October. The Director of the Anuradhapura teaching hospital, Dr Sarath Weerabandara, speaking to defence.lk said that 4 [...]

The opposition leader of the North-Central provincial council, Maj General Janaka Perera (Retd) and many others were killed when an LTTE suicide cadre blew himself inside the United National Party (UNP) office near the Old Bus Stand in Anuradhapura this morning

The Government has informed the Project Manager of the controversial ZOA INGO to leave the country before the fifth of this month (October), Minister of Human Rights and Disaster Management Mahinda Samarasinghe informed. The Minister said that while the other INGO and NGO staff members adhered to the Government’s request to relocate in Vavuniya leaving [...]

Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara today (Oct 2) told media that forward elements of 57 division troops are now consolidating their defences in the area, 3.5 km south of Kilinochchi outskirts. Speaking at the weekly media briefing at the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) he said that some elements of the 57 division have [...]