Doha urges FSA not to kill 48 Iran prisoners

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim Al-Thani urged the Free Syrian Army (FSA) yesterday not to kill Iranians seized two months ago near Damascus, after the captors threatened to start killing their 48 prisoners. Al-Baraa brigade said on Thursday it would start killing the Iranians unless the Bashar Assad regime freed Syrian opposition detainees and stopped shelling civilian areas. Meanwhile, Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria yesterday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey’s border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara’s warning that it will respond with force to any violence spilling over into its territory. It was the fifth consecutive day of Turkish retaliation against incoming bombardment from northern Syria. Arab news