NATO forces have bombed an area close to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli, hitting what reporters described as a military installation.
The strike early Saturday set off alarms in the capital, but caused no injuries.
Libyan officials described the site that was hit as a parking lot. But reporters on the scene say two bomb craters exposed a layer of reinforced concrete covering what appeared to be a bunker. They said ammunition crates also lay close by.
Also Saturday, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Libyan authorities have released an Italian ship detained in the port of Tripoli last month along with its 11 crewmembers.
The ship, which was working for an Italian oil company, was seized shortly before an international coalition began imposing a no-fly zone over Libya.
On Friday, Libyan officials said the military will withdraw from the city of Misrata, which has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting between pro-Gadhafi forces and opposition rebels.
Libya's deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, said the fate of the city will be left to the "tribes around Misrata and the Misrata people."
He did not say when or under what circumstances the army would leave.
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