Libya's rebel forces are now in control of the strategicaly important eastern town of Ajdabiyah after pushing back troops loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. On the eastern road, where Gaddafi's forces had been firing out towards rebel positions, those ground troops appear to have been hit by coalition airstrikes.
There are no signs of Gaddafi's forces offering any resistance any more. We just passed a huge celebration on the road with rebels firing into the air and cheering that Ajdabiyah is now free.
We are just heading into the town, but already people are telling us that it has been a horrible situation over the past week or so while the town has been under the control of Gaddafi's forces.
It is a town of 140,000 people. About half the population fled when the fighting began but that still leaves a good number who have sat here hiding and we understand there have been a high number of civilian casualties. Read More
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