The head of the Organization of Islamic Conference Akmaluddin Ihsan Oglu warned on Sunday of “dangerous developments” should the violence in Syria continue.

He voiced fears that Lebanon may once again slip into civil war should the crisis in Syria persist.

Syrian pressure on Prime Minister Najib Miqati is increasing on a daily basis and the Tripoli clashes have been provoked by the Syrian regime, a French source told the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat in remarks published on Sunday.

It said: “The situation in Tripoli favors the Syrian regime.”

Turkey has requested that Lebanon reduce its “media uproar” over the 11 Lebanese pilgrims who were kidnapped in Syria nearly two weeks ago in order to allow it to resolve the case, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

Sources monitoring the situation stated that the abductors chose to raise their demands for the release of the captives once they noticed the great media and political attention the case has been receiving.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday agreed that they needed to work together on Syria, a U.S. official said.

"They both agreed that we've got to work together," the official said, following a telephone conversation between Clinton and Lavrov.

A top military aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused Ankara, Riyadh and Doha of serving U.S. and Israeli interests in Syria, in a veiled warning to Turkey of worsening ties.

"The Americans, Israelis, and some European and Persian Gulf nations, in particular Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have delegated to Turkey the task of achieving their goal to weaken or topple Bashar Assad's government or make it surrender," Fars news agency reported General Yahya Rahim Safavi as saying.

The head of Syria's largest exile opposition group said Saturday he would welcome Arab military action aimed at ending attacks by Bashar Assad's regime against Syrian rebel forces and civilians.

Burhan Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council, made the comments before a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Doha.

Arab leaders called for U.N. action on Saturday as at least 27 people were killed in Syria amid growing concern that Kofi Annan's peace plan is failing and the country descending into all-out civil war.

Annan himself warned of sectarian warfare, singling out Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime as key to resolving the conflict.

Syrian troops conducted raids in search of anti-regime militants and clashed with rebels on Saturday in several regions of the country, with at least 39 people killed including 22 soldiers, a policeman, 15 civilians and one deserter, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

In central Homs province, one civilian was killed during raids of the town of Karatin, and a man and his daughter were fatally shot on a bus on the road to Talbisseh.

A Syrian priest was hospitalized in the eastern Lebanese city of Zahle after suffering injuries in the Syrian town of al-Qusair, in Homs province, during a gunfight between troops and rebels, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said Father Elia Mikhael Jreij, 33, was admitted to Tal Shiha hospital in Zahle to treat the gunshot wound in his left leg.

French President Francois Hollande said Friday that no solution is possible in Syria without "the departure of Bashar Assad.”

He spoke at a press conference with Russia's Vladimir Putin.