BENGHAZI, Libya: Libya’s parliament Wednesday voted to disband the country’s militia brigades and integrate them into the military in an effort to end the worst fighting between rival armed factions since the 2011 fall of Moammar Gadhafi.

Colonel Mohamed Al-Suwaisi, the head of Tripoli Security Directorate, was assassinated today in Tajoura.

Last week, Libya’s House of Representatives (representing who, exactly, in Libya’s fractured polity?) elected a new president.

For the past month, Libya has been in the grip of some of the worst violence since the 17 February 2011 revolution which led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. There have been many civilian casualties and those working in the media have not been spared.

As food supplies run low in Tripoli, Libya’s Chief of Staff announces he has “no control” over government-funded rebel groups

Three years after Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster, Libya remains in political turmoil. Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz tells NPR’s Arun Rath that the international community must follow through on its intervention.

Rallies have been held in Tripoli and Benghazi, both for and against the new parliament.

The House of Representatives has issued in its first resolution from Tobruk an order for an unconditional ceasefire by all the warring militias in both Tripoli and Benghazi, within 24 hours.

Amnesty International is calling for all sides to immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas in Tripoli and Benghazi where clashes in recent weeks have evolved into two separate armed conflicts. Such indiscriminate attacks that result in death or injury to civilians amount to war crimes. 

Statements on Egypt’s apparent intention to intervene in Libya caused many observers to recall the sole military incident between Egypt and Libya, which occurred in 1977. However, today’s crisis is nothing like that of 1977’s crisis. Libya’s Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was a leader who is all about slogans. Back then, he dared …