NTC fighters are still wrestling for control of Mr. Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte and the desert town of Bani Walid

Fighters with Libya's National Transitional Council are claiming ascendancy in the boondocks of Sabha, one of the few actual strongholds for loyalists to Moammar Gadhafi.

The NTC said Thursday that its armament accept acquired ascendancy of all districts of the southern boondocks but still face pockets of attrition from snipers.

Provisional ascendancy fighters said Wednesday that they had affected Gadhafi loyalists in abounding locations of the town, 750 kilometers south of Tripoli.

However, NTC fighters are still angry for ascendancy of Mr. Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte and the arid boondocks of Bani Walid. The NTC armament accept been adverse annealed attrition from armed loyalists of Mr. Gadhafi in both towns.

Meanwhile, NATO says it is extending its operations in the country for addition three months. Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday the accord is bent to abide its mission “for as continued as necessary.”
In addition development, the United States has appear affairs to reopen its admiral in Tripoli. U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz has alternate to the capital, area the U.S. affairs to accession its banderole over its mission on Thursday.

Cretz was based in Tripoli until December 2010. He larboard the country afterwards WikiLeaks appear his assessments of Moammar Gadhafi's claimed activity in which he declared Libya's then-leader as “mercurial,” “notoriously erratic” and a “hypochondriac.”