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Libya's opposition fighters are battling Gaddafi's forces on the country's western border, while fighting still continues in the besieged city of Misurata.
Fierce fighting is ongoing for control of the Misurata port, where three local people have been killed, an opposition spokesman called Reda told the Reuters news agency by phone on Tuesday.
"Gaddafi's troops are still positioned on the outskirts of the city," he said before the line was cut.
While Gaddafi forces pulled out of the city over the weekend under pressure from NATO air attacks, they have since unleashed a heavy bombardment on the city, the only major western city in opposition hands.
"It was horrific, like a scene from World War II," said Saddoun el-Misurati, a resident who was waiting to evacuate his mother from the port when the rockets began to fall. "I stopped counting after nine."
Gaddafi forces on Tuesday bombarded the port, which is the sole lifeline of Misurata's battered population, news agencies said.
"Another development which is rather disturbing is that there has been shelling in the docks area, which is the lifeline to opposition forces and indeed the civilian population here," Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reported from Misurata.
"Reports from an opposition spokesperson say pro-Gaddafi troops are intent to cut the main road from city to the port. If the lifeline is cut then everyone is in a desperate situation.
"Though Gaddafi troops have left the city everybody is under threat of shellfire. The whole city centre has been destroyed and needs to be rebuilt."
Shelling Berber towns
In a separate move, Gaddafi's forces shelled Berber towns in Libya's western mountains with artillery, opposition forces and refugees said.
Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught, reporting from the Nafusa mountain range, said the opposition forces claimed to have gained ground in their fight against Gaddafi's army after NATO's recent air raids.
Libya, for its part, has urged Russia to call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss what it called "Western aggression".
US lifts sanctions
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has eased its sanctions against Libya to allow for the sale of oil controlled by the opposition. The move will allow Libya's opposition forces to use the income from oil sales to buy weapons and other supplies.
Tuesday's move will allow US companies to engage in transactions involving oil, natural gas and other petroleum products if the petroleum exports will benefit the opposition Transitional National Council of Libya.
The new order modified sanctions the administration had imposed in February freezing $34 billion in assets held by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his family members and top government officials. The original order had imposed sanctions on Libya's oil companies.
Also on Tuesday, the US ordered the expenditure of up to $25 million in surplus government goods to "support Libyan opposition groups and protect civilians threatened by Gaddafi forces".
In a memorandum to Congress, president Barack Obama said the money may be used for nonlethal commodities and services to help the opposition, led by the Transitional National Council in Benghazi.
PHOTO CAPTION
A Libyan opposition soldier keeps guard outside the Qasr Libya Museum near Al-Bayda April 25, 2011.
Al-Jazeera
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