12 dead in Benghazi, Libya, fighting

BENGHAZI, Libya, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Up to 12 Libyan soldiers were killed Thursday in a double suicide bombing in Benghazi, Libya, and 60 injured, hospital personnel said.

In a separate attack, suspected Islamists killed four at an army checkpoint east of Benghazi in the town of Qubah.

Libya is under assault by an assortment of armed groups who were involved in the ouster of Col. Moammar Gadhafi as leader but have now turned against each other for political dominance and access to the country's vast oil revenues. Former army brigades led by Khalifa Haftar, once a Libyan Army general, have been fighting forces including Ansar al-Sharia, an Islamist militant group believed responsible for the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens in 2012.

The country's leadership and military command have dissolved to the point its elected Parliament relocated from the capital of Tripoli, now controlled by an alliance of rebel groups, to the port city of Tobruk.