The political and military opposition to President Bashar Assad announced on Monday they have set up a hotline to coordinate their action aimed at bringing down the regime.

The Syrian National Council, an umbrella group, said in a statement the decision was taken in talks on Saturday night with the Syrian Free Army (SFA), formed of deserters from the military.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed on Monday the importance of maintaining stability in Lebanon to avert any repercussions the Syrian crisis may have on the country.

Jumblat told As Safir newspaper that his meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday tackled the Lebanese local situation.

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said on Sunday that a ministerial meeting this week could discuss a Qatari proposal to send Arab troops to unrest-hit Syria.

"All ideas will be open for discussion," he told reporters in Manama when asked if Saturday's meeting will debate the proposal by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.

Syrian security forces shot dead 27 people on Sunday across the country, most of them in the central opposition bastion Homs and the northwestern province of Idlib, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said.

The LCC said the ten in Idlib were killed "when pro-regime forces targeted their bus," but the state-run SANA news agency reported that a roadside blast in Idlib killed six workers and injured 16, blaming the attack on an "armed terrorist group."

Western nations have no immediate plans for military action to stop the repression of protests in Syria or to halt Iran's nuclear program, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday.

Asked if there was a possibility of a no-fly zone in Syria like the one imposed over Libya last year, Hague said there was "no serious prospect" of a U.N. resolution on the subject.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Sunday decried the "silence" of the U.N. Security Council on Syria's deadly crackdown on protests, saying the situation was becoming "intolerable".

"The massacre continues, the silence of the Security Council too. This situation is becoming intolerable," he said at a press conference during a visit to Myanmar.

The Arab League should consider sending troops to Syria as proposed by Qatar's emir, Amr Moussa, the bloc's former secretary general, said on Sunday.

"This is a very important proposal," Moussa said in Beirut on the sidelines of a U.N.-organized conference on democracy in the Arab world.

Syria's President Bashar Assad has decreed a general amnesty for crimes committed during unrest in the country over the past 10 months, the official SANA news agency said on Sunday.

"President Assad issued a decree stipulating a general amnesty for crimes committed during the events between March 15, 2011 and January 15, 2012," SANA reported, without elaborating.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday issued a call to Syria's Bashar Assad to stop killing his people, warning the embattled president he was heading for a dead end.

Ban said in a keynote address at a conference on Arab world democracy in Beirut: "Today, I say again to Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people. The path of repression is a dead end,"

Hizbullah MP Mohammed Raad stressed on Saturday that any change in Syria should be made by the people without any foreign intervention.

Raad said after meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that the two have different points of view over the developments in Syria.