Israeli military aircraft are reported to have been flying low over Lebanese airspace, with some fearing that further air strikes are possible following the recent attack on a Syrian truck convoy near the Lebanese border.
As opponents of the Assad regime scramble from one foreign capital to another, trying to secure funding for weapons and aid to help Syrians in need, some prominent religious leaders are sitting on the sidelines, quietly organizing themselves to provide spiritual guidance after the bloodshed ends.
Israeli military aircraft have attacked a target close to the Syria-Lebanon border in an apparent attempt to stop the Assad regime from sending stockpiles of weapons to the militant group Hezbollah.
The UK will deploy 330 military personnel to Mali and West Africa to provide support to the French forces currently in combat against the Islamist rebels and to help train the Malian army in the future.
Some armed opposition forces appear to have deliberately destroyed a number of religious sites in mixed areas of Northern Syria. Opposition leaders have pledged to protect all Syrians, but this is proving more difficult in practice.