Sri Lankan Air Force ground attack fighter jets carried out three air raids Tuesday "targeting LTTE resistance points" in the country's north in support of advancing government troops, who are facing heavy resistance from the Tamil Tiger rebels.

Air Force spokesman Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara said that all three targets were located in the battlefront west of Kilinochchi, the political and administrative "capital" of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).