Libyan government forces and helicopters belonging to renegade general Khalifa Haftar [5] bombed ammunition sites of suspected Islamist militants in Benghazi on Sept. 4. Fighting in the two main cities Tripoli and Benghazi has now displaced 100,000 people. (Reuters [6], Sept. 4) The Islamist-led Libyan Dawn rebels have effective control of Tripoli, and on Sept. 1 raided the evacuated US embassy compound. (Al Jazeera [7], Sept. 1) A delegation from Libya's House of Representatives has failed in repeated bids to broker a cease-fire with the Libyan Dawn coalition. Libya's parliament has taken refuge in the eastern city of Tobruk, having been displaced from both Tripoli and Benghazi. (Libya Herald [8], Sept. 9) Libya's Grand Mufit Sadiq al-Ghariani [9] is accused by the parliament of backing "terrorists." The country’s recently appointed prime minister Abdullah al-Thinni [10] urged lawmakers to remove Ghariani after he broadcast several sermons online in support of the Dawn coalition and other Islamist-aligned militias. (The Economist [11], Sept. 3)
