.- Artillery rounds fired by forces loyal to the leader of Libya Muammar Gadhafi on Saturday fell and Tunisia, as they developed new fighting between troops and rebels near the Libyan border of the volatile country in northern Africa. Schools were evacuated and residents rushed to take refuge in the Tunisian city of Dehiba, which in recent weeks has been hit repeatedly by a series of mortar, while the Libyan rivals fighting for control of a border crossing nearby.
Columns of smoke and stones marked the place where they dropped four missiles on the territory of Tunisia. The battle between rebel forces and pro-Libyan Gadhafi is for control of border crossing-Wazzin Dehiba, which would give the fighters a path to the outside world through the Mountain region of the West.
Although the rebels controlling the crossing, Gadhafi forces are in charge of a much larger outpost in the north. In the last week, the battles have intensified in the Mountain West, one of several fronts Libyan conflict in which opposing forces are fighting to leave the bloody stalemate in a number of sectors.
The rebels fighting to end more than four decades of the Gadhafi regime have received the support of NATO air forces to confront the heavily armed troops from the Libyan government, but that has not been enough to end the stalemate in the war. Last week, the fighting near the border with Tunisia to spread itself Dehiba, generating angry protests against Libya from the Tunisian authorities.
More than 30 000 refugees have crossed from Libya Mountains west to Tunisia, where many are being housed by local families. Sympathy for rebels Libyan tends to be strong in Tunisia, where the ouster in January of an authoritarian president for 23 years in power spread riots in Libya and caused riots throughout the Arab world. 
Columns of smoke and stones marked the place where they dropped four missiles on the territory of Tunisia. The battle between rebel forces and pro-Libyan Gadhafi is for control of border crossing-Wazzin Dehiba, which would give the fighters a path to the outside world through the Mountain region of the West.
Although the rebels controlling the crossing, Gadhafi forces are in charge of a much larger outpost in the north. In the last week, the battles have intensified in the Mountain West, one of several fronts Libyan conflict in which opposing forces are fighting to leave the bloody stalemate in a number of sectors.
The rebels fighting to end more than four decades of the Gadhafi regime have received the support of NATO air forces to confront the heavily armed troops from the Libyan government, but that has not been enough to end the stalemate in the war. Last week, the fighting near the border with Tunisia to spread itself Dehiba, generating angry protests against Libya from the Tunisian authorities.
More than 30 000 refugees have crossed from Libya Mountains west to Tunisia, where many are being housed by local families. Sympathy for rebels Libyan tends to be strong in Tunisia, where the ouster in January of an authoritarian president for 23 years in power spread riots in Libya and caused riots throughout the Arab world.
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