(VOVworld) - Libya's internationally recognized parliament suspended its participation in UN-brokered peace talks on Monday. A new round is due to open in Morocco on Thursday. The parliament announced the decision after attacks in Al-Qoba by Islamic State jihadists, which killed and wounded dozens of people, said Libya’s LANA news agency. Another anonymous parliamentarian said the decision to pull out of talks was made due to fears that the international community would exert pressure to include Islamists in a future unity government.

Egyptians queue up with their belongings as they wait to enter Tunisia, via the Libyan side of Ras Djir border crossing, on February 23, 2015 for a flight evacuating them back to Cairo (AFP Photo/Mahmud Turkia)

In another development, almost 15,000 Egyptians flocked home from Libya via the border crossing at Sallum, state news agency MENA reported on Monday. Cairo has urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya to leave, and also chartered planes to fly many of them home from Tunisia, Libya's western neighbor.