They live in apartments where bullet holes let in the winter cold and summer heat in shell-pocked buildings that look structurally unsound.
Sirte's most prominent son, former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was killed there after fleeing Tripoli during a 2011 NATO-backed uprising that ousted his regime and triggered years of violence. When Islamic State seized Sirte in 2015, its militants also chose the centre for their headquarters, flying their black flag from the domed main building until their defeat in the following year.
But while a huge poster of Haftar hung on the wall by the Sirte mayor's desk, there were no visible images of Bashagha.
I hope NATO including the USA are proud of the mess they created in Libya