PARIS: The West spearheaded the campaign to topple Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but three years later finds itself powerless as deadly clashes between rival militias threaten to tear the country apart, analysts say.

After Gaddafi ‘s death in October 2011 following a war between his loyalists and rebels backed by the Americans, British and French and several Arab countries, the West organized several conferences to rebuild a new Libya and revamp its military.