Cairo, July 28 — A Libyan activist says rebel fighters have clashed with government forces in several areas near the Tunisian border and have seized a town along a major highway.
A spokesman Badees Fessato says two rebel fighters and several government troops have been injured in Thursday’s fighting.
Libya’s five-month-old civil war has been largely deadlocked, despite shifting front lines. Rebels control most of eastern Libya and parts of the west, while Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has the rest.
Rebels tried to push back Gadhafi’s forces from a key supply road that links their western mountain stronghold with Tunisia. Fessato says rebels seized the town of Jawsh and advanced toward nearby Badr.
He says it was the biggest rebel push there in recent weeks.
—Agencies