In Libya, Gaddafi's forces advanced to the opposition stronghold of Benghazi, after a series of counter-offensives. According to the Al Jazeera channel the pro -Gaddafi forces push back the rebel from the eastern oil town of Brega. The channel said that the recapture of Brega came amid a string of setbacks for the rebels who lost several cities in the east to pro-Gaddafi forces. BBC quoted witnesses as saying that dozens of rebel fighters are pulling out of Brega amid heavy shelling. It said Gaddafi's troops are on the outskirts of the Misrata, last major rebel base in western Libya, with tank fire being heard. As the Gaddafi regime wrested back momentum against a month-long uprising, the rebels received morale-boosting support from the Arab League that approved the proposal mooted by the west for imposing a no-fly zone over Libya and establishing contacts with the oppositions' provisional National Council based in Benghazi.