The German, Italian and French leaders said in a joint statement on Saturday they were ready to consider sanctions as a response to violations of the UN arms embargo on Libya.

One of Libya’s largest tribes has warned that the “Zionist project” seeks to drag the Egyptian military into a conflict in their country, reports Anadolu Agency.

Turkey sent between 3,500 and 3,800 paid Syrian fighters to Libya over the first three months of the year, the US Defence Department’s inspector general concluded in a new report, its first to detail Turkish deployments that helped change the course of Libya’s war.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Egypt and the United Arab Emirates for their continued support of commander Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) forces in Libya, a day after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with eastern Libyan tribesmen in Cairo.

The commander of the Libyan National Army, renegade Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has met with a high-level US military and political delegation, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat has reported.

The spokesman for the Libyan Foreign Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Mohammed Al-Giblawi said the statements of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi had been fueling conflict in Libya as he claimed to be proposing peace.

Pro-Haftar tribal elders and dignitaries met Thursday with the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Cairo in a meeting aimed at staging a military intervention by the Egyptian army in Libya to help raise the stakes of warlord Haftar in the Libyan conflict.

The Libyan Army monitored the arrival of military supplies coming from Egypt to the city of Tobruk yesterday.

A senior United States diplomat has urged Europe to take “a more robust role” in the Libyan conflict, starting with a focus on Russian military contractor Wagner Group and the roles played by Russia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – countries that are allegedly violating a UN arms embargo.

Shop owners in Libya are refusing to accept cash after the seizure of more than $8 billion worth of counterfeit notes which had alleged been printed in Russia to support renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, Al Jazeera reported.