Tripoli, March 30: Forces loyal to embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi have reportedly pushed back revolutionary forces after intensifying attacks.
Anti-Gaddafi revolutionaries have lost the town of Bin Jawad and most of them have now retreated past the town of Ras Lanuf, the state-funded BBC reported on Tuesday.
Aided by US-led military strikes, anti-Gaddafi forces had progressed towards the west of the country from Benghazi in recent days.
The revolutionary forces had seized a number of oil-rich towns in crisis-hit Libya, including Ras Lanuf and Brega.
However, as pro-Gaddafi forces used heavy weaponry on Tuesday, most revolutionaries have reportedly pulled out of Ras Lanuf.
This comes while a meeting of foreign ministers and international organizations was held to discuss post-Gaddafi Libya in London on Tuesday.
During the London meeting, some 40 representatives from the UN, NATO, the African Union and the Arab League called on the 68-year-old Gaddafi to cede power.
British Foreign Minister William Hague, who chaired the conference, said the delegates “agreed that Gaddafi and his regime have completely lost legitimacy,” as other leaders discussed to chalk out a plan for future of Libya.
The meeting was held against the backdrop of public outcry over the heavy bombings in Libya by French, British and the US warplanes that have reportedly claimed civilian lives in the country.
The Libyan regime says that at least 114 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and 445 others injured in the campaign of US-led military airstrikes in Libya since March 20.
——–Agencies