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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.

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Parliament, which was elected June 25 and is dominated by anti-Islamists, is recognised by the international community but contested by a coalition of militias that control Tripoli and by Islamists in the eastern city of Benghazi.

The talks were held in the far southwestern town of Ghadames, following marathon shuttle diplomacy by UN mission chief Bernardino Leon, and attended by representatives from Britain and Malta.

On Tuesday, however, the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) coalition in Tripoli denounced the dialogue in a statement and declared that it was continuing with its "military operations," without elaborating.

In the east, the "Shura of Benghazi Revolutionaries" comprising jihadist groups, among others, issued their own statement rejecting the initiative as "unfair".

For its part, the Dar al-Ifta, the country's highest religious authority, called for the "suspension" of the talks, and warned of the "dangerous decisions" of the new parliament.

The Dar al-Ifta, which has been regularly criticised for interfering in politics, is widely considered to be a supporter of Fajr Libya in the capital and the Islamist militants in Benghazi.

In its statement, it singled out for criticism the parliament's decision to declare as "terrorists" what it called "revolutionaries."

The majority faction of the new parliament has been meeting in the far eastern town of Tobruk since the Islamists and their allies took control of Tripoli last month.

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