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A Syrian opposition leader has urged President Bashar Assad to hand power to his deputy or his prime minister and then go abroad with 500 members of his entourage, without immunity from prosecution.
Turkey has shut its side of the last border crossing with Syria still controlled by President Bashar Assad's government, stepping up security following two deadly bombings this month.
Backers of the Syrian uprising are to meet in Amman to discuss a US-Russian proposal for peace talks, as the brutal two-year conflict escalates close to the border with Lebanon.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has criticised the world's response to the Syria conflict as limited to "rhetoric", saying his country had received little help in coping with an influx of Syrian refugees.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has now documented the deaths of at least 145 people in a "sectarian massacre" earlier in May in the coastal city of Banias, the watchdog says.
Fighters of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar Assad's forces, a video has showed.
The Free Syrian Army has pledged to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against any moves that would further destabilise the situation in Syria, speaking after talks with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to hold talks on the conflict in Syria amid growing concern about Moscow's arms deliveries to Damascus.
Syrian troops have taken full control of a town near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan, says an activist group.
Two explosive-laden cars have blown up in a small Turkish town near the border with Syria, killing 18 people in one of the deadliest recent attacks in the volatile area.
The problems that plague the Middle East, including Iran's nuclear ambitions and Syria's civil war, require "political, not military" solutions, says US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Syria's foreign ministry has welcomed a US-Russian proposal to resolve the country's war, saying it was confident key ally Moscow will not change its stance on the conflict.
In his first response to Israel's weekend airstrikes, President Bashar Assad says Syria is capable of facing Israel, but stopped short of threatening retaliation for the strikes near Damascus.
