Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated that Turkey would take part in any international coalition against Syria, but has stopped short of saying whether that would include military action.
NATO’s secretary-general says he does not foresee a major role for the bloc regarding the crisis in Syria except deploying Patriot missiles to Turkey.
The chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has denied any involvement of the alliance in a military action against Syria.
More than 10 NATO countries have "most definitely" refused any forms of involvement in a US contemplated operation against Syria.
Americans have held a rally at New York’s Times Square to protest against a possible US plan to strike on Syira on the pretext of an alleged chemical attack in the country.
Thousands of Israelis have lined up for gas masks or ordering them by phone, spurred on by fears that any Western military strike on Syria could ensnare the Israeli regime in war.
In an effort to bypass the United Nations, national security aides to President Barack Obama are looking at the war in Kosovo in the late 1990s as a possible blueprint for military action against Syria.
A US airstrike has killed at least five Afghan policemen during a joint operation against insurgents in the eastern province of Nangarhar, NATO says.
At least seven people have been killed in a bomb attack by Taliban and ensuing gun battle in the Afghan capital.
Media reports say Turkey, a NATO member, is likely to be the transit destination for US-supplied lethal weapons to foreign-backed militants fighting the Syrian government.
A joint military exercise scheduled to take place in Jordan next week is aimed reportedly at readying forces for “a possible intervention in Syria.”
Foreign troops serving with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have killed at least two seminary students in western Afghanistan, Alalam reports.
NATO forces have killed four Afghan police officers and wounded two civilians in an airstrike in Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni.
The Afghan government has ordered the withdrawal of US forces from Wardak and Logar within two weeks for fuelling insecurity and instability in the provinces neighboring the capital Kabul.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday expressed deepening unease at a growing disparity in defense spending between the United States and European allies due to economic pressures on eurozone governments.
Turkish protesters have rallied in the capital, Ankara, to protest against the deployment of NATO Patriot missiles along their country's border with Syria.