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The fierce battle between rebels and troops loyal to Colonel Qaddafi is ongoing in order to gain control of the port city and oil Brega, east of Tripoli, according to the television channel Al Jazeera.
The rebels have launched an offensive early in the morning on three different fronts and battles are intense and violent, say the sources.
Gaddafi opposing forces, which seem better organized and equipped military have launched rockets and shells on the positions taken by those loyal to the regime in Tripoli and forced them to retreat to the center of Brega, the sources said.
Early in the afternoon and while they were still fighting ground, a NATO aircraft bombed positions gadafistas forces, added the sources.
Al Jazeera has broadcast images of distant artillery fire and numerous rebel columns of black smoke, while explaining that Gaddafi's forces have been concentrated mainly in the vicinity of the city's industrial zone.
Aided by air strikes by aircraft of the Allied forces, rebel troops retook control, ten days ago, the city of Brega, as a bridgehead of an offensive that they should allow the collection of Sirte, the town Gaddafi's home.
But gadafistas brigades counterattacked and forced the rebels to retreat to the nearby city of Ajdabiya.

The death toll from the double suicide bombing yesterday in a Sufi shrine of Sakhi Sarwar in Punjab province, in eastern Pakistan rose to 50, while the wounded 110, police and hospital sources said.
Police confirmed Monday that the explosion occurred at the entrance of the mosque Sufi Sakhi Sarwar in Dera Ghazi Khan district, where thousands of faithful were to celebrate a traditional annual festival in honor of the saint that names the temple .
Three suicide vests arrived on foot to the scene and two of them detonated his charges when arrested by officers at the entrance of the mosque, while the third was captured without being able to detonate the explosives, according to the Pakistani daily Dawn.
Police reported Sunday that two suicide bombers entered the temple of Sakhi Sarwar, dedicated to the Sufi saint of the same name, which blew up at a time when thousands of pilgrims were in the room.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni extremists and the Taliban are ardent opponents of the Sufis and their shrines and temples considered idolatry.
The Sunni fundamentalist organizations and the Pakistani Taliban have repeatedly attacked Sufi congregations, who seek a mystical interpretation of Islam away from the strictness of Islam.
One of the bloodiest attacks against Sufism, which also binds to many Shiites, was carried out in July 2010 against the shrine of Data Darbar in Lahore, killing at least 50 people dead.

The U.S. government today denied reports disseminated by means whereby the British oil group BP obtained new licenses to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, a year after the oil disaster.
"The rumors of an agreement with BP are by no means certain," said U.S. Secretary of the Interior in Washington. He did not rule, however, that BP can resume its operations in those waters beginning in the summer (northern hemisphere). For this the company must submit before a thorough examination.
U.S. newspapers Financial Times and Sunday Times reported this weekend that the company had obtained permission from U.S. authorities to rebuild in their platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
In return, they said the two newspapers, BP, responsible for the biggest oil disaster in U.S. history, undertook to allow authorities access to their platforms and improve their emergency plans.
"There is no agreement. No talks, "said the spokesman of the supervisory authority in charge of monitoring the oil group, Lisa Schwartz, said in a statement. All applications will be evaluated solely on the basis of documents submitted. "So far we have not issued any permit for BP," said Schwarz.
BP is the largest dealer of oilfields in the Gulf of Mexico. In its eight sites are more than 400,000 barrels a day out in today's edition of the Washington Post. According to the newspaper, BP tries to start in summer palataformas existing holes in ten.
The catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico BP plunged into a severe crisis. The costs of disaster were valued by the British in about 41,000 million (28,800 million euros). The company ended fiscal 2010 with loss of 4,900 million dollars.

A UN plane crashed on Monday while trying to land at the airport in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 26 people, an official said.
The aircraft lost control in heavy winds and crashed to the ground going off the track, the official of the Ministry of Health Joseph Kiboko.
At least 26 of the 32 passengers and three crew members died, he said.
"We moved to eight people to the hospital still breathing, but I do not know if they survived. Both drivers were killed, " he said.
A UN source, who asked not be named, said: "The aircraft landed hard, broke in two and burst into flames. "
A Reuters correspondent at the airport said that the Bombardier CRJ-300 aircraft was completely destroyed and the remains were at the end of the runway.
The aircraft flew from Goma in the east, said the UN source.