ajdabiya

Everyone said proudly that the road to Ajdabiya was a charnel ground, and I drove out to see it.

As the front line of fighting between rebels and government forces inched closer to Ajdabiya, the city remained relatively calm.

An ambulance driver outside Ajdabiya made the point with his hands: "Sarkozy, " he said while flashing a thumbs-up.

Ajdabiya, the rebels' forward military headquarters, was bombed on Monday, though it seems to little effect.

But western jets bombed the regime forces' armour, with at least 22 wrecked tanks littering main junctions in and around Ajdabiya.

But the next day, Ajdabiya was surrounded and besieged, Qaddafi's forces active in the city.

The reporters saw tanks, grad rocket launchers, and fuel tankers massing, all implying his pause at the Ajdabiya would not last for long.

Gadhafi loyalists pulled back to Ajdabiya's outskirts after nightfall, and residents braced for a new round of shelling and airstrikes. Col.

Gaddafi's fighters were forced out of Ajdabiya weeks ago and the town now is largely deserted but for the pro-democracy forces.

Rebel forces, enthusiastic but not well-drilled, went again to Ajdabiya but appeared unable to dislodge government forces there.

"I'm stopping in Benghazi for the night and then heading to Ajdabiya, " the young man -- I'll call him Hussein -- replied.

He seized and fortified the town of Ajdabiya and blitzed Benghazi, provisional capital of the interim government.

Rebels emboldened by the international support renewed fighting in Ajdabiya, a strategic city they had lost last week, witnesses said.

Repulsing government forces from Ajdabiya, which controls the water supply to Benghazi, is a key objective for the coalition and the rebels.

On March 23rd, I travelled to the front line near Ajdabiya.

Both sides held on to their positions along the outskirts of the towns of Brega and Ajdabiya.

Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi are battling opposition fighters for control of the eastern town of Ajdabiya.

He was listening to "Youth of the Revolution, " which the rap group Music Masters wrote just days after the uprising began in mid-February.

Residents spoke of several dozen fatalities in Ajdabiya in the last two days.

Mourners gather in Ajdabiya for the burial of those killed by Qaddafi's forces.

Several hours after Mr. Moussa had declared a cease-fire, explosions could be heard about 30 miles away from Ajdabiya.

Earlier reports from eastern Libya said government forces shelled the opposition held town of Ajdabiya.

In fact, rebels have been stopped just beyond the town of Ajdabiya many miles from Sirte.

He issued a thinly veiled threat to attack Col. Gadhafi's forces still on the offensive in the cities of Ajdabiya and Misrata.

Doctors in city of Ajdabiya say pro-Gaddafi forces have used rape as a "weapon of war" .

Human Rights Watch accused government troops of placing mines last month south of Ajdabiya.

On Monday, his forces drove rebels back from the strategically important town Ajdabiya.

We hit Qaddafi's troops in neighboring Ajdabiya, allowing the opposition to drive them out.

However, forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to strike rebel-held strongholds at Ajdabiya and Misrata.

Rebels in eastern Libya have retaken the important town of Ajdabiya from forces loyal to the country's leader Muammar Gaddafi.

There were also clashes near Ajdabiya, in eastern Libya, as Ian Pannell reports.

A rebel fighter brandishes his handgun in the eastern Libyan city of Ajdabiya.

The dead and injured were brought to Ajdabiya after the oil refinery was attacked early in the morning.

A rebel fighter stands at a roundabout in the center of town in Ajdabiya, Libya on March 15.

Libyan rebel fighters fire rockets in the desert half way between Ajdabiya and Brega, in Libya April 9.

On Wednesday doctors at the hospital in Ajdabiya said 38 people had died in the fighting.

On the night of Friday, March 25th, after a long bombardment by coalition warplanes, Qaddafi's forces fled Ajdabiya.

Staff at Ras Lanuf's hospital evacuatee along with patients to the hospital in Ajdabiya, further to the east.

Moneim, a burly university student, says he is "taking the opportunity" of the fighting around Ajdabiya to learn how to use a rifle.

The war is being fought on three fronts: along the coast between Ajdabiya and the Qaddafi tribal stronghold of Sirte;