Fighting flares in battle for Tripoli despite UN appeal for ceasefire in Libya

Fighting has flared in southern Tripoli as General Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National  Army (LNA) intensified its assault on the capital despite a United Nations appeal for a cease fire.  The United Nations mission to Libya (Unsmil) called for an "urgent" two hour truce to allow the evacuation of civilians and wounded from Tripoli's southern suburbs on Sunday, where troops loyal to the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) were battling to halt