ALJAZEERA: Opposition forces have launched a two-pronged offensive in western Libya, increasing pressure to isolate Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s stronghold of Tripoli.
Opposition fighters fought for control of the towns of Gharyan and Az-Zawiyah on Sunday, attempting to cut off the southern coastal route from Tunisia that Gaddafi uses for supplies.
Zeina Khodr, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Az-Zawiyah, reported that the rebels had taken control of a bridge along which the highway from Tripoli to Tunisia runs, but that central areas of the city remained contested, with Gaddafi forces employing snipers and mortar fire… (more)
