Libya Disintegrating Into A Failed State As Benghazi 'Falls To al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels'

The armed groups that took the city belong to a group called Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries [Reuters]

Benghazi 'Falls To al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels' -- Al Jazeera

Factions including Ansar al-Sharia say they have taken over Libyan city after defeating forces of renegade general.

Armed groups claimed to have taken control of Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, after defeating units loyal to a renegade general, taking over their barracks and seizing tanks, rockets and hundreds of boxes of ammunition.

The main police headquarters was on Thursday still smouldering after it was hit by shelling a day earlier, and smoke rose from the barracks of al-Saiqa soldiers loyal to General Khalifa Haftar, once the strongest security body in the city until it was overrun earlier this week.

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