Libya Government Claims Control After Parliament Attack

Libya's government said it was still in control of the country Monday following an armed assault on parliament that it denounced as a bloody coup attempt, NBC News reported. "The government condemns the expression of political opinion through the use of armed force from all parties and it calls for an immediate end to the use of the military arsenal," Justice Minister Asalah al-Marghani said in a live televised statement and posted by BBC News. Two people were killed when militants stormed the parliament building in the capital Tripoli on Sunday.

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