The NATO military alliance says it has sunk eight warships belonging to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
The ships were targeted in co-ordinated overnight attacks on the ports of Tripoli, Al Khums and Sirte, the alliance announced on Friday.
The deputy commander of the NATO mission in Libya said the air strikes were needed to protect civilians and NATO forces at sea.
NATO, acting under a UN mandate to Implement 'No Fly Zone' has far reached beyond its actual mandate of observing mere "No Fly Zone" to the limits in put in Ground troops, establishing a rebel government, attacking Libyan leader Gaddafi him self three times, killing his family members including his son, attacking TV stations, civilian buildings and now ports and ships .
With UN in western hands, they have started from a mere observing of "No Fly zone" to full fledged war including covert action, even they have support from international criminal court to indict Gaddafi of killing civilians, though Nato strikes on Libya have killed more civilians than Gaddafi itself. Nato has strikes even Libyan rebels three times.
In some of the latest strikes, NATO hit Gaddafi's forces around 15km east of the opposition-held town of Zintan in the Western Mountains region. The town and the port city of Misurata have seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent weeks.
