The UN has called for an immediate stop to hostilities in Libya following a day of deadly clashes between political factions in Tripoli's capital.

Talking to Radio Islam International, the managing director of the International Interest Global Risk and Intelligence Company, Sami Hamdi, said there was a lull in the fighting in Libya over the past year primarily due to the Turkish intervention. This established a military equilibrium that essentially ruined any possibility of a military solution to the situation in Libya, as Libya's factions were dragged, kicking and screaming, into a political dialogue process in which they did not want to engage.