Pro-regime forces threatened to recapture the closest rebel-held city to the capital in the west on Tuesday, as fighting continued to rage around Zawiya. After dramatic successes over the past weeks, Libya's rebel movement appears to have hit a wall of overwhelming power from loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi. If Zawiya, on Tripoli's doorstep, is ultimately retaken, the contours of a stalemate would emerge - with Libya divided between a largely loyalist west and a rebel east. Days of fierce battles between rebels and Gadhafi's forces have taken place in the city, which is 30 miles (50 kilometres) west of Tripoli.
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