SYRIAN VIOLENCE LEAVES 14 MONTHS BEHIND

Neither the presence of the international observers nor the UN Envoy Kofi Annan's plan for peace could bring peace into the country.

An organization called Al-Nusra Front took the responsibility for a suicide attack which hit Deir ez-Zor city week-end. The organziation said in a manifesto they published, "We will continue to support the struggle of the Syrian people."

Meanwhile, sectarian tension rises at intervals in Lebanon which is feared to be dragged into a civil war. The Assad supporters and the opposition members clashed in the streets of Beirut.

Rocket launchers and automatic rifles were used in a recent clash in Beirut which killed two people.