Tripoli, Libya - Six months after a ragtag group of poorly trained rebels set out to topple the Libyan regime, the fighters appeared Monday to be on the brink of ending Moammar Gadhafi’s 42-year rule.The holdout now: A barrage of clashes with Gadhafi forces on his home turf, Tripoli.”A great majority of the capital of Tripoli is under freedom fighters’ control,” said Guma El-Gamaty, the Britain-based coordinator for the rebels’ Transitional National Council.But Gadhafi’s forces remained in control of at least three parts of the city — a hospital, a military barracks and Rixos hotel where international journalists are staying.

A Libyan government official, who asked not to be named, conceded that the regime had lost control of some parts of the capital.