Syrian President Bashar Assad has allegedly criticized Lebanon's policy of dissociation from the Syrian war and hailed the nomination of Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam.

“I don't understand what this policy means. Is it meant to transfer Lebanon to the African continent and keeping it there until the Syrian crisis ends?” a delegation from Lebanese pro-Syrian parties that visited Assad in Damascus quoted him as saying.

The United States has delivered to the World Food Program enough wheat to feed more than a million Syrians for four months, the U.N. agency said in a statement on Sunday.

The MV Advantage ship offloaded part of the 25,000 tons of wheat in Beirut on Monday and the rest in Turkey's Mersin port on Friday, the WFP said, adding that it will milled and then distributed across Syria as part of its emergency assistance program.

Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Assad stormed a flashpoint town near Damascus on Sunday, said a watchdog, adding that scores of bodies, some of them disfigured, were found there.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 80 people have been killed in the town of Jdaidet al-Fadl in five days of violence.

Unveiled and barking orders at fierce-looking Kurdish men nearly twice her size, commander Engizek is a shocking sight within Syria's male-dominated rebel ranks.

A short, diminutive woman flanked by gun-toting loyalists, Engizek leads dozens of Kurdish combatants in Aleppo city's embattled district of Sheikh Maqsud, large parts of which were seized late last month from regime fighters.

The Syrian opposition on Sunday called on Hizbullah to end its military involvement in Syria's conflict, warning that the party's “interference” could have “disastrous consequences.”

In a statement, the main opposition National Coalition urged Hizbullah to "immediately withdraw its forces from Syrian territory", adding that the group's involvement in Syria's conflict "could drag Lebanon and the region into an open-ended conflict with disastrous consequences."

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Sunday said Berlin will have no choice but to accept the lifting of an EU arms embargo on Syria if other European countries push for it.

Germany up to now has opposed providing military support to Syria's rebels, but Britain and France are pushing for the embargo to be allowed to expire at the end of May.

Syria's National Coalition head Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib has refiled his resignation and an interim leader is being sought, a fellow member and a source close to the main opposition group said on Sunday.

Khatib insists on resigning, almost a month after first announcing he was stepping down and two weeks before NC leadership elections are scheduled to take place.

Three rockets and a shell fired from Syrian territory landed in Lebanon's Hermel district on Sunday, causing material damage only, the state-run National News Agency reported.

A shell and two rockets hit the road leading to the Sahlat al-Ma' area in the town of al-Qasr, NNA said.

A Syrian government daily on Sunday accused the United States of having "thrown oil on the fire" of the country's conflict by doubling its aid to the opposition.

"The meeting of the so-called 'Friends of Syria' held in Istanbul yesterday has thrown oil on the fire of the Syrian conflict," said Al-Watan.

Jordan police have arrested eight Syrians on suspicion of inciting riots at a refugee camp near the Jordan-Syria border, a Jordanian security official said Sunday.

About 100 Syrian refugees threw stones at police on Friday for preventing some of them from sneaking out of their desert camp. Ten police officers were wounded, including two who remain in critical condition.