Sri Lanka

(Newser) - The Black Tigers, the Tamil rebel group in Sri Lanka, killed five and injured 22 at a government air base yesterday in their largest coordinated attack in two decades, reports the Guardian. Suicide bombers, ground forces, and small planes took part, said a spokesman for the Tigers, which lost 21...

(Newser) - Tamil Tiger rebels overran a naval base in northern Sri Lanka today, killing an undetermined number of sailors and aggravating concerns that civil war threatens the island nation. The Tigers said the fighting lasted 20 minutes and they "found 35 bodies"; the Sri Lankan military reported fewer than 10...