El Sisi, Shoukry keep up drive to galvanize support on Libya: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held a phone call on Sunday with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the situation in Libya and potential cooperation between Cairo and Paris to reach a political solution in Tripoli, according to an Ittihadiya statement. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, meanwhile, held a similar conversation in which the two expressed their refusal of a military intervention in Libya, which would be detrimental to the political process, .

Turkey, still seemingly unfazed, could send fighters to Libya: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked Ankara’s parliament for a one-year mandate to deploy Turkish in Libya, according to Bloomberg. Erdogan’s motion would grant him a carte blanche on the limit, extent, amount, and timing of deployment. Meanwhile, four Turkish sources told Reuters that allied Syrian fighters might be deployed to Libya to support Fayed Al-Serraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA). The unnamed sources said Turkey has not yet sent any Syrian fighters, despite reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming that 300 Syrian fighters had been transferred to Libya while dozens are being trained in Turkish camps.