TROOPS conducting more and more searches in the areas north of SURANTHARANPURAM, MULLAITTIVU Thursday (12) morning uncovered an LTTE 81mm mortar manufacturing plant from the area. 
 The plant had equipment for filling of explosives and production of barrel type claymore mines inside the premises when the Army troops found the site. The recovery came in the [...]

Crossing the open terrain was the greatest obstacle. Crossing the marble coloured beaches was worse. Yet they moved on. Courage and valour alone would not be successful when fighting the world’s most ruthless terrorist group.
Soldiers of 8VIR, 6 Sri Lanka Light Infantry (SLLI) battalion and 7 VIR had their recoveries displayed at this [...]

The Security Forces engaged in the final phase of the Vanni liberation operation continued its military thrust against the LTTE recovering large hauls of weapons as the 48 hour ultimatum given to the LTTE to allow civilians to reach safer areas ended on Saturday night with around 300 civilians arriving in Security Forces controlled areas, [...]

With the Government ruling out any ceasefire, Army troops today rolled out to wrest the last territories held by Tigers’ and foiled a rebel suicide boat attack, apparently aimed at breaking the Naval Blockade off the Mullaitivu coast, for a breakout bid by militants.
In fresh military offensive, which is shrinking the Tigers to just a [...]

The capture of Mullaitivu, the last big town under the control of the Liberation  Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in a way came about as abruptly as Kilinochchi on January 25. But the 59 Division of the Sri Lanka security forces which captured Mullaitivu had to fight its way through in some of the worst [...]

The clock has started ticking for the LTTE. The Sri Lankan army has said that in less than 48 hours, it is likely to overcome the last of LTTE’s strongholds in small corner in the northeast.
Top Sri Lankan military sources have told that about a thousand rebel fighters are putting up stiff resistance in the [...]

In its attempt to trigger a civilian crisis in Wanni, LTTE terrorists have reportedly drawn artillery batteries, heavy mortars and military posts inside civilian settlements and makeshift camps which were earlier declared as no-fire zones, military said citing civilian and ground sources. Yesterday (29), the government along with the UN and ICRC facilitated transportation of [...]

 
Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, when deciding to close the sluice gates of Mavil Aru in July 2006, would never have thought that it would precipitate the end of their terror campaign against the Sri Lankan State to reach its illusionary Tamil Eelam by facing such a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan [...]

A soldier walking through the newly captured Chilawatte area in Mullaittivu district. In the background is an earth bund constructed by the LTTE as one of its defences. - AFP photo

In yet another setback to the beleaguered Tamil Tigers, Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday fought their way into the nerve centre of LTTE’s artillery power near northern Mullaittivu amid fierce resistance, even as they killed 20 guerrillas in separate clashes, the military said.
The troops, on the final leg of their offensive against the rebels, entered [...]