Hezbollah has appointed Mustafa Mugniyeh to head its military wing. Mughniyeh is the son of previous military chief Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in Damascus in 2008, and nephew of Mustafa Badreddine, killed last week in Syria.

Israel is providing humanitarian aid to Syrian rebels on condition that they do not harm the Druze minority and that they keep their distance from the border.