Nato claims that anti-Gaddafi forces are "assuming control of the key approaches to Tripoli". The Alliance's military spokesman on Tuesday argued that these advances represent the rebels' "most significant territorial gains for months".
The fighting is now some 40km to 60km (25 to 37 miles) from the Libyan capital. To the west, forces loyal to the rebels' National Transitional Council (NTC) have advanced on Sorman and Zawiya, two towns on the coastal road leading west from Tripoli towards the Tunisian border. A little to the south of Tripoli rebel troops are reported to have entered Gharyan.
These advances are of crucial strategic significance. Zawiya is the location of Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime's only functioning oil refinery.
For more: BBC News - Libya conflict: Beginning of the end?
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