Libya's internationally recognized parliament created a new army chief post on Tuesday, with a lawmaker and state media saying the job will go to a once retired general fighting to eradicate Islamist forces.

"The chamber (of deputies) adopted today a law regarding the general leadership of the Libyan army," calling on parliament speaker Aguila Salah Issa to name a chief, MP Issa al-Aribi told Agence France-Presse.

Egypt said Tuesday a political accord in Libya would not be enough to tackle the jihadist threat in the country, after Western states balked at military intervention following Egyptian air strikes.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry's comment came a day after the internationally recognized parliament in east Libya announced a suspension of its participation in UN-brokered negotiations between Libya's warring rival administrations.

Almost 15,000 Egyptians have flocked home from war-torn Libya via the border crossing at Sallum, state media reported Monday, after Islamic State group jihadists murdered 21 Coptic Christians.

Last week Egyptian and Libyan warplanes hit IS targets inside Libya after the jihadists released a gruesome video on February 15 showing the Christians, 20 of them Egyptian, being beheaded.

Libya's internationally recognized parliament on Monday suspended its participation in U.N.-brokered talks on the future of the war-wracked North African state, officials said.

"The chamber of representatives today voted in favour of suspending its participation in the dialogue," with a new round due to open in Morocco on Thursday, MP Issa al-Aribi announced on Facebook.

At least 1,000 Egyptians have been evacuated from Libya through Tunisia since Friday, the Tunisian transport ministry said, following the murder of Coptic Christians by the Islamic State group.

Last week Egyptian and Libyan warplanes hit IS targets inside Libya after the jihadists released a video showing the beheadings of 21 Christians, most of them Egyptian.

The Islamic State group said it carried out a double bombing that targeted the empty residence of Iran's ambassador to Libya on Sunday.

A security official said no one was hurt in the latest attack on a diplomatic mission in Tripoli, where most embassies have been shut since summer 2014 as rival militias battle for control of the city.

Rockets were fired at an eastern Libyan airfield used by an anti-Islamist general but fell short, the facility's manager said Saturday, adding that there were no casualties or damage.

Unknown assailants fired four rockets at the international airport just outside Labraq, from which General Khalifa Haftar's forces launch raids against Islamist positions in the east.

Jihadists in Libya pose a "direct threat" to Europe, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in Madrid on Saturday.

"I would like to cite the question of Libya and the direct threat to our security of the creation -- under our eyes and not far from our borders -- of a new haven for the jihadi terrorist," Valls told a gathering of social democrats, according to a transcript of his speech.

Fears a fresh wave of migrants could be poised to leave Libya for Europe mounted Friday as tales from those who have reached Italy revealed how terrifying conditions have become in the conflict-torn north African state.

Asylum-seekers who have made it to the Italian island of Lampedusa paint a grim picture of a country locked into a conflict which is beginning to have an impact on the people-smuggling trade.

The Gulf Cooperation Council has backtracked on criticism of Egypt in its row with bloc member Qatar over Libya, in a move a Saudi-owned daily said Friday reflected divisions among member states.

GCC secretary general Abdullatif al-Zayani had issued a statement on Thursday rebuking Egypt for accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism in Libya because of reservations it expressed about Egyptian air strikes earlier this week.