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Syrian President Bashar Assad Tuesday issued a decree granting amnesty for certain crimes, government-run news agency SANA reported.
Washington and Amman accelerated training of Syrian rebel forces who might create a buffer zone along Syria's southern border, U.S. and Jordanian officials say.
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U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Jordan Friday after a visit to Israel that included with a stop Friday at the Holocaust Memorial at Yad Vashem.
An international rights consortium in Paris called for a global protest Friday to mark the two years since the start of the Syrian conflict.
Turkish officials said more than 200,000 Syrian refugees have flooded over the border to escape two years of violence to oust President Bashar Assad.
The United Nations said the number of Syrians registered as refugees from their war-torn country or receiving assistance has hit the 1 million mark.
The humanitarian crisis for people fleeing the civil war in Syria is beyond description, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees said.
European Parliament members call for Iranian dissidents in Iraq's Camp Liberty to be return to Camp Ashraf and moved to third countries.
About 1,500 Somalis are turning up in the capital of Mogadishu daily, fleeing the country's worsening drought, officials said.
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