Clashes continue in Libya between supporters of General Khalifa Hifter, who has decided to take on the Islamist militants who have made the country all-but ungovernable, and opponents of the military leader.<br /><br />A demonstration against Khalifa in Tripoli broke down into scuffles and running battles when Khalifa supporters arrived and tried to drive them off the streets. <br /><br />Since the fall of the Gaddafi dictatorship in 2011 militias and the army have struggled for control and two rival governments have struggled to install rule of law. Khalifa, a retired former Gaddafi loyalist who broke with him in the 1980s, has decided to take on the militias in Benghazi, and there has been fighting there in a campaign dubbed “Dignity” since mid-May.<br /><br />Elsewhere the home of military leader Hasheem Bashir, who has been charged with integrating militias into Tunisia’s armed forces, was severely damaged by a huge car bomb that also injured several people. He too has been increasingly seeking to distance himself from the more hardline Islamist militias.
