The US, British and Italian Foreign Ministers began talks with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Seraj today to tackle a political standoff preventing Tripoli's UN-brokered unity government from expanding its authority outside the capital.<br/><br/> Seraj and his two deputies met British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, US Secretary of State John Kerry and their Italian counterpart, Paolo Gentiloni, at the British Foreign Office in London.<br/><br/> Since the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi to an uprising in 2011, Libya has been beset by factional fighting among brigades of ex-rebels who battled him and then turned on each other.<br/><br/>Western powers are alarmed about resistance to Seraj and his Government of National Accord (GNA) from the country's eastern military commander General Khalifa Haftar, who has blocked a parliamentary vote to endorse the GNA.