Ajdabiya
Proper noun
Meaning
Ajdabiya
A town, the capital of Al Wahat district, 150 km south of Benghazi, Libya.
Examples
It has grown with the creation of Ansar al-Sharia branches in Sirte and Ajdabiya, where they benefited from State resources provided by Khaled al-Sharif and Ibrahim Jadhran, respectively’’.
Fighting has also broken out in the eastern cities of Al-Bayada, Ajdabiya, Darnah, and Tobruk.
At present it is trying to take control of the strategic city of Ajdabiya, which is on the central Libyan coast and connects eastern and western Libya.
But the battle of Ajdabiya still is critical for the survival of the rebel movement.
Civilians calling from Ajdabiya say the rebel forces managed to repeal the attack by pro-Ghaddafi forces and that the city never was in the hands of the old regime.