Sri Lankan rebels said Monday that a new round of peace talks on ending the country’s 25-year-old civil war is impossible as long as the government presses ahead with a military offensive.

Sri Lankan rebels said Monday that a new round of peace talks on ending the country’s 25-year-old civil war is impossible as long as the government presses ahead with a military offensive.

Sri Lankan government forces captured a Tamil Tiger rebel base in the north Sunday after a 48-hour battle that left at least 15 rebels dead, while air force jets destroyed six rebel boats, the military said.

Fighting between government troops and separatist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka’s embattled northern region has killed 16 rebels and a soldier, the military said Sunday.

Sri Lankan government forces killed 19 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh fighting along the front lines of the island nation’s civil war, the military said Saturday.

A wave of battles along the front lines of the civil war in northern Sri Lanka killed 20 ethnic Tamil rebels and five soldiers, the military said Friday.

Sri Lanka’s military says a new wave of fighting in the north has killed 22 ethnic Tamil Tiger rebels and five soldiers.

Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a group of ethnic Tamil rebels Thursday, a day after new fighting in the north killed 27 people, the military said.

Sri Lankan soldiers captured a key naval base used by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern part of the country, the military said Wednesday, a day after fighting in the region reportedly killed 51 rebels and a soldier.