By Aziz El Yaakoubi
TRIPOLI
(Reuters) - Clashes in Libya spread from Tripoli to the western town of
Zawiya near Tunisia's border, where a large oil port is located, killing
four people over the last two days, local town council officials said
on Thursday.
Foreign
governments have mostly closed their embassies and evacuated staff after
three weeks of clashes turned Libya's two main cities - Tripoli and
Benghazi - into warzones in the worst fighting since the NATO-backed war
against Muammar Gaddafi.
Three years after Gaddafi's fall, Libya's government has been unable to
tame rival brigades of former rebel fighters who have allied themselves
with competing political factions in a struggle over post-war spoils.
The fighting in Zawiya is part of a broader struggle between two loose
confederations of former rebels and their political allies whose
rivalries have exploded into street battles that have killed more than
200 people in the past three weeks.
Brigades allied to town of Zintan - based in the city some 130 km (80
miles) southwest of Tripoli - and their anti-Islamist Qaaqaa and
Al-Sawaiq units are battling Islamist-leaning Libya Shield brigades
loyal to the central, coastal town of Misrata who say they are fighting
former Gaddafi allies. read more
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