The fall of Syria's President Bashar Assad would end an axis with Iran and its President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, benefiting Israel, the country's intelligence minister said on Sunday.

"There is an Assad-Ahmadinejad axis, a Tehran-Damascus axis," Israeli intelligence minister Dan Meridor told military radio. "Breaking this axis would be good for Israel."

The Lebanese political parties have clinched an unannounced deal to keep the security situation under control despite their political differences, diplomatic sources said Sunday.

The sources told the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily that despite an “incoherent” politician situation in Lebanon, the politicians have agreed to keep stability amid the violence and the crackdown on protestors in neighboring Syria.

Hizbullah has accumulated 45,000 missiles that pose a threat to Israel, a senior defense ministry official has said, claiming that Iran and Syria supplied the missiles to the party through ships, planes and trains.

The Israeli defense ministry’s director of policy and political-military affairs, Amos Gilad, told the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai over the weekend that Lebanon's leaders are unaware of these developments, creating a vacuum that has given rise to a new, independent entity he dubbed "Hizbullastan."

Syrians were voting on Sunday on a new constitution in the face of opposition calls for a boycott and deadly violence that Washington has said made the exercise "laughable."

The new text ends the legal basis for the five-decade stranglehold on power of the ruling Baath party but leaves huge powers in the hands of President Bashar al-Assad.

American war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee an army bombardment in the Syrian city of Homs, her employer The Sunday Times said.

Colvin and a group of other journalists had all followed the local custom of removing their footwear before entering a building in the besieged city which was being used as a rebel press center, it said.

Iranian warships that docked in Saudi Arabia this month were part of a "training tour for students" in the Islamic republic's navy, the state news agency SPA reported on Saturday.

It said officials at Tehran's embassy in Riyadh submitted a request for two ships and a helicopter to dock at Jeddah between February 1 and 7.

Negotiations between the International Committee of the Red Cross, Syrian authorities and opposition groups to evacuate the wounded from Baba Amr in Homs on Saturday ended in failure, the IRCR said.

The "ICRC and Syrian Arab Red Crescent have been negotiating since this morning with both the Syrian authorities and opposition groups in Homs. The discussion has yielded no concrete result today. Unfortunately, therefore, no emergency evacuation will take place today," a spokesman told Agence France Presse.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat described Syrian President Bashar Assad as a “megalomaniac,” calling for the arming of the Syrian opposition.

Jumblat told the French newspaper Le Monde that his last meeting with Assad was “surreal.”

Iran reaffirmed Saturday its opposition to any military intervention in Syria, after an international conference suggested sending an Arab force to Tehran's ally to subdue ongoing bloodshed.

Iran "rejects any kind of military intervention in Syrian affairs," a foreign ministry statement said.

Ten injured Syrian nationals were transferred to hospitals in Tripoli after crossing from Homs into Lebanon through al-Qaa border town, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The Lebanese Red Cross helped transporting the injured civilians to the hospitals.