Defense News - The conflict in Libya |
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Wednesday,
March 30, 2011, 01:00 PM |
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Pro-Gaddafi
forces retake Bin Jawad pushing rebel forces out of Bin
Jawad 150 km East of Sirte.
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Pro-Gaddafi
forces retake Bin Jawad, as opposition fighters retreat
in the face of renewed counter-offensive. Troops loyal to
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, have shelled pro-democracy
forces heading west on the main coastal highway, pushing
them out of Bin Jawad, a small town around 150km east of
Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown.
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The
Pentagon said that international forces had launched 22
Tomahawk cruise missiles and flew 115 strike sorties over
Libya in the last 24 hours.
The reversal for Libya's nascent opposition came after their
forces had made a speedy, two-day advance from Ajdabiya.
This city is a crossroads town that Gaddafi's troops had
held for two weeks before an international military intervention
allowed pro-democracy fighters to take it back.
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A Libyan soldier loyal to leader
Muammar Gaddafi stands in a street strewn with rubble in
the city of Misrata, 200 km (124 miles) east of the capital
Tripoli |
