"Civilian and military sites in Tripoli and Tajura had come under fire from long-range missiles"

As Western coalition air strikes were launched for a seventh straight day on Friday, NATO announced it has agreed to take control of enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya “after lengthy negotiations the 28-member alliance” while the US remains in charge of military operations.
  
The decision comes as the director of the US military's Joint Staff, Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, had said earlier on Thursday that Washington was working very hard to hand over leadership of the coalition policing a no-fly zone over Libya to some other entity.

"At this moment there will still be a coalition operation and a NATO operation," said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels as he announced the agreement following four days of marathon talks to determine who should take command of US-led operation in Libya.

Rasmussen said the NATO operation was limited to enforcing the no-fly zone, but a senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity later in Washington, said NATO reached a "political agreement" to also command all other operations aimed at protecting civilians -- meaning strikes against Kadhafi's ground forces.

Earlier on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stated that NATO will take full command of the ongoing military operation against Libya after Ankara's demands were met in negotiations with Britain, France and the US.

The news came as anti-aircraft fire raked the Libyan skies overnight, with at least three explosions shaking the capital and its eastern suburb of Tajura, AFP journalists reported. At least one blast was heard from the centre of the city, while others came from Tajura, home to military bases.
  
Defense Secretary Liam Fox said Friday that British Tornado jets launched missiles overnight at Libyan armored vehicles which were “threatening” civilians in the strategic eastern oil town of Ajdabiya.

Libyan state television said "civilian and military sites in Tripoli and Tajura" had come under fire from "long-range missiles."
  
Fighting also raged in rebel-held Misrata, east of Tripoli. Forces loyal to Gaddafi reportedly muscled opposition forces out of the northwestern city of Misrata despite a cannonade of aerial strikes by the Western forces targeting tanks reentering the opposition-controlled city. A doctor treating the wounded at a hospital said attacks by Gaddafi forces since March 18 "have killed 109 people and wounded 1,300 others, 81 of whom are in serious condition."

A Gaddafi fighter plane flied the no-fly zone on Thursday but was destroyed by a French fighter after it landed in Misrata, the French military said.
  
Washington, meanwhile, urged the Libyan military to ignore Gaddafi's orders.