Libya's NTC Captures Three Southern Towns -- Al Jazeera
Escape route for Muammar Gaddafi now cut off, but combat suspended in tough battles for Bani Walid and Sirte.
Commanders with the National Transitional Council (NTC) said their forces now controlled all three main towns in the Al-Jufra oasis, 24 hours after they announced the capture of Libya's largest desert city, Sabha, in the deep south.
"Al-Jufra - Hun, Waddan and Sokna - is liberated," a military spokesman in Libya's third-largest city Misrata said in a statement early on Thursday.
The defeat of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the Saharan oases left his remaining forces in his hometown of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast and the desert city of Bani Walid to its west effectively cut off from any line of escape to the south.
Several key Gaddafi supporters have fled to Niger from Sabha, an NTC spokesman said on Thursday.
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