An international watchdog said, meanwhile, that Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
's regime handed over on time a detailed plan on destroying its chemical weapons stockpile.
The move was in line with a US-Russian deal reached last month that headed off threatened military strikes on Syria and that triggered an initiative for peace talks to be staged in Geneva next month.
But the initiative has struggled to win the support of the warring parties in Syria, where more than 115,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the 31-month conflict.
In the latest blow, 19 Islamist groups fighting to topple Assad issued a statement casting further doubt on whether the talks dubbed "Geneva 2" will actually go ahead.
"We announce that the Geneva 2 conference is not, nor will it ever be our people's choice or our revolution's demand," said the statement read out by Suqur al-Sham brigade chief Ahmad Eissa al-Sheikh in a video posted online.
"We consider it just another part of the conspiracy to throw our revolution off track and to abort it."
They warned anyone who attends such talks would be committing "treason, and... would have to answer for it before our courts".
The statement comes as the UN-Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
peace envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, prepares to travel to Damascus on Monday, a Syrian government source told AFP.