PARIS/MISRATA, Libya, (Reuters) – France promised Libyan rebels yesterday it would intensify air strikes on Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and send military liaison officers to help them as fighting raged in Misrata, killing nine civilians.
Rebels said they fought Gaddafi’s forces for control of a main road in the besieged port city of 300,000, the insurgents’ last bastion in the west of the country where civil war erupted in February over demands for an end to Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
Seven Libyan civilians, a Ukrainian doctor and a British photojournalist were killed in the course of heavy fighting between pro-government troops and