BRUSSELS, April 16 (Reuters) - Following are the latest available details of military activity in Libya. Full Reuters coverage of the Libyan conflict is on.
* Libyan rebels made a renewed effort to push towards the oil port of Brega on Saturday while Muammar Gaddafi's forces pounded besieged Misrata to the west with rockets and mortars, insurgents said.
* Six were killed and 16 wounded when Gaddafi loyalists fired rockets at a group of insurgents driving along the exposed coastal highway from the town of Ajdabiyah west towards Brega.
* Sustained anti-aircraft fire was heard in Tripoli on Saturday evening, a Reuters correspondent in the Libyan capital said.
* In Misrata, besieged for seven weeks, a rebel spokesman, Gemal Salem, said Gaddafi's forces pounded the town with rockets and mortars on Saturday, targeting a dairy and another factory that makes cooking oil.
* The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch has accused Gaddafi's forces of using cluster bombs -- which scatter bomblets over a wide area -- in Misrata. The Libyan government has rejected the allegations.
* In Ajdabiyah, rebels said Gaddafi's forces were ensconced in the centre of Brega, often inside houses, while insurgent fighters were themselves more exposed.
* On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged the military situation on the ground in Libya had reached a stalemate, but said he expected NATO allies to force Gaddafi from power eventually.
* NATO took command of Western military operations in Libya on March 31 and has about 200 aircraft at its disposal. It says its aircraft have conducted a total of 2,583 air sorties of which 1,087 were strike sorties. NATO defines strike sorties as missions intended to identify and engage targets, but which do not always involve the use of munitions.
* It conducted 145 sorties on Friday, including 58 strike missions.
* NATO said key targets on Friday included:
-- five bunkers destroyed in the vicinity of Sirte;
-- two tanks destroyed near Zintan;
-- two tanks hit in the vicinity of Misrata;
-- four bunkers hit near Tripoli.
* Seventeen NATO vessels have been patrolling the Mediterranean to enforce a U.N.-mandated arms embargo. On Friday, 12 vessels were hailed to determine destination and cargo but no boardings were conducted.
* A total of 346 vessels have been hailed and nine have been boarded since the beginning of arms embargo operations.
* Of the 28 NATO states, only France, Britain, the United States, Belgium, Canada, Norway and Denmark have been conducting airstrikes. Others have contributed aircraft and ships to support operations, enforce a no-fly zone and an arms embargo.
* Britain, France and Denmark are carrying out most of the ground strikes.
((Reporting by Justyna Pawlak; Editing by Sophie Hares)) Keywords: LIBYA NATO/ (justyna.pawlak@reuters.com; +32 2 287 6853; Reuters Messaging: justyna.pawlak.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2011. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.
* Libyan rebels made a renewed effort to push towards the oil port of Brega on Saturday while Muammar Gaddafi's forces pounded besieged Misrata to the west with rockets and mortars, insurgents said.
* Six were killed and 16 wounded when Gaddafi loyalists fired rockets at a group of insurgents driving along the exposed coastal highway from the town of Ajdabiyah west towards Brega.
* Sustained anti-aircraft fire was heard in Tripoli on Saturday evening, a Reuters correspondent in the Libyan capital said.
* In Misrata, besieged for seven weeks, a rebel spokesman, Gemal Salem, said Gaddafi's forces pounded the town with rockets and mortars on Saturday, targeting a dairy and another factory that makes cooking oil.
* The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch has accused Gaddafi's forces of using cluster bombs -- which scatter bomblets over a wide area -- in Misrata. The Libyan government has rejected the allegations.
* In Ajdabiyah, rebels said Gaddafi's forces were ensconced in the centre of Brega, often inside houses, while insurgent fighters were themselves more exposed.
* On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged the military situation on the ground in Libya had reached a stalemate, but said he expected NATO allies to force Gaddafi from power eventually.
* NATO took command of Western military operations in Libya on March 31 and has about 200 aircraft at its disposal. It says its aircraft have conducted a total of 2,583 air sorties of which 1,087 were strike sorties. NATO defines strike sorties as missions intended to identify and engage targets, but which do not always involve the use of munitions.
* It conducted 145 sorties on Friday, including 58 strike missions.
* NATO said key targets on Friday included:
-- five bunkers destroyed in the vicinity of Sirte;
-- two tanks destroyed near Zintan;
-- two tanks hit in the vicinity of Misrata;
-- four bunkers hit near Tripoli.
* Seventeen NATO vessels have been patrolling the Mediterranean to enforce a U.N.-mandated arms embargo. On Friday, 12 vessels were hailed to determine destination and cargo but no boardings were conducted.
* A total of 346 vessels have been hailed and nine have been boarded since the beginning of arms embargo operations.
* Of the 28 NATO states, only France, Britain, the United States, Belgium, Canada, Norway and Denmark have been conducting airstrikes. Others have contributed aircraft and ships to support operations, enforce a no-fly zone and an arms embargo.
* Britain, France and Denmark are carrying out most of the ground strikes.
((Reporting by Justyna Pawlak; Editing by Sophie Hares)) Keywords: LIBYA NATO/ (justyna.pawlak@reuters.com; +32 2 287 6853; Reuters Messaging: justyna.pawlak.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2011. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.