A Muslim man who held a British passport has been killed in Syria along with two others according to UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
As the two sides argue about preconditions to attending the Geneva 2 negotiations, could the Syrian conlfict be about to spill over and engulf neighbouring Lebanon and Israel into war?
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has claimed that the Syrian army has won “major victories” against the rebels and holds the “balance of power” in an interview with a Lebanese television station.
The factious state of the rebels in Syria, means that the UK cannot be sure where its arms are heading or how they will be used in the conflict.
Visitors crossing from Turkey to Ras al-Ayn, a sleepy border town in eastern Syria, are now welcomed by the unlikeliest of characters: a Catholic member of what is considered an extremist Islamist rebel group.