Last Tuesday’s arms seizure at Khoms port turned out to contain only blank rounds. The seizure of two containers of allegedly 4 million bullets and a large number of 5 mm hand guns from Turkey had created a huge media and political storm.

The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez Al-Serraj and the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte met in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Sunday and discussed bilateral relations and cooperation.

Turkey and Libya have agreed to launch an urgent joint investigation into a shipment of arms which was sent from the former country to the latter and seized by authorities in Khoms port.

The United Nations Special Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) warned against the possible escalation of manoeuvres into clashes as the Khalifa Hafter-controlled Libyan National Army (LNA) made a pre-emptive move on what the LNA described as Jadran-Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) forces.

The Libyan National Army has called on the United Nations Security Council to launch an investigation into the arrival of two shipments of military hardware from Turkey.

Vladimir Putin is working to fill voids left around the world as Donald Trump puts America first.

Libya’s Al-Khoms port authorities seized on Tuesday a container laden with weapons and ammunition coming from Turkey.

The United States calls for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of armed elements from the Sharara oil field region in Libya, US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino said in a press release.

An independent assessor is going to be appointed by the UK Foreign Office to advance a compensation campaign by victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA violence, British media reported on Tuesday.

Moscow is showing renewed interest in Libya, perhaps piqued by the question of whether the country could end up with another Gadhafi in charge.