US Secretary of State John Kerry has been lobbying European nations to agree with Britain's call on ending an arms embargo towards Syria, in order to allow for the arming of Syrian rebels.

Tripoli - The northern Lebanese city of Tripoli saw some of its heaviest fighting between pro and anti-Assad gunmen last night. In the aftermath of the fighting, at least 10 people were killed.

That’s according to a new report from the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) which has called the situation in Syria a “humanitarian catastrophe”.

Rebel commander Abu Sakkar filmed himself cutting out and eating the organs of a dead pro-regime fighter, and warned that if the bloodshed continues "all Syrian people" will be like him - promising the same fate to Alawites members of Assad’s Shiite.

Damascus - Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, in an interview with the Argentine newspaper El Clarin said that he was not resigning and that a political solution to the Syrian conflict was "unreal".

As if the 80,000 dead in Syria are not the result of a war, Israel warns Russia that shipping missiles to Assad could result in war in the region. Meanwhile, Russia has sent at least 12 warships into the Mediterranean to protect its assets in Tartous.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights posted a video to YouTube on Wednesday that shows members of the jihadist group Jabhat Al-Nusra executing supporters of the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad.

Aleppo - Syrian rebels in the northern city of Aleppo have launched a major attack against the city's central prison where 250 anti government individuals are being held.

The Syrian rebel commander branded a "cannibal" after video footage emerged of him biting into a dead regime soldier's heart, has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities.

A video from Syria has shown a rebel commander mutilating the body of a Syrian soldier, and cutting the soldiers heart out before biting on it.

Syrian troops have taken full control of a strategic town located near a highway linking Damascus to Jordan according to activists.

Ankara - While Syria was all too quickly blamed as being behind the bombs that killed 46 and wounded more than 150, it now emerges that planning and execution is an all Turkish affair. Among the dead and wounded are Syrians as well.

Early next week, Israeli PM Netanyahu will meet Russian President Putin in Sochi for what seems to be an attempt to dissuade the latter from sending S-300 anti-aircraft batteries to the Syrian armed forces. Chances for a successful mission seem small.

Russia and the US both stated their commitment to bringing those on both sides of the Syrian conflict to the negotiating table. Russian President Putin also discussed with UK Prime Minister David Cameron ways in which the Syrian conflict might be ended.

The head of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has announced that Syria would be providing the Lebanese militia group with new advanced and sophisticated weaponry in response to Israel's airstrikes inside Syria.

The Syrian military scored a strategic victory today with the capture of Khirbet Ghazaleh, a southern town located on a key highway to Jordan.

Four UN peacekeepers were seized and detained by Syrian rebels near the the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. The peacekeepers were part of a UN force monitoring the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria.

When the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of The Onion (the satirical, parody news website), at first people thought it was just the "normal" news. Since then both sides have confirmed the attack, with ever-increasingly morbid "humor."

Yesterday (May 5), Egypt and the Arab League both condemned recent Israeli airstrikes on targets in Syria. Syria said that the Israeli strike gives direct support to terrorist groups.

Geneva - Carla del Ponte, member of the UN Human Rights Commission, has unequivocally stated that chemical weapons have not been used by the Syrian army but by fighters among the rebels.