The Free Syran Army Military Commander General Salim Idris said on Monday that he ordered his fighters to treat Hizbullah's captives as “mercenaries and not as prisoners of war”.

Idris elaborated that Hizbullah's fighters will be tried in military courts: “They will not be treated following the conditions mentioned in the international law and which mention a trade between the prisoners of the parties at war”.

Syria's opposition coalition condemned on Monday Iran and Hizbullah's “interference in Syrian matters”, considering it “a violation of international agreements that cannot be ignored”.

"The testimonies of several Syrians and the events documented so far all confirm a direct involvement of Hizbullah in the criminal activities in the country,” a statement released by the coalition said, elaborating that the party explains that it is “supporting President Bashar Assad against a conspiracy targeting him”.

A Beirut delegation has met with the kidnappers of the abducted Lebanese pilgrims in Syria, the Turkish state-run Anadolu agency reported on Monday.

"Interior Minister Marwan Charbel has deputed a delegation to hold talks with the abductors in Syria's northern city of Aazaz,” the agency said.

Damage to infrastructure across Syria after nearly two years of conflict is estimated to cost $11 billion (8.2 billion euros), local administration minister Omar Ghalawanji said on Monday.

"Syria is suffering a war that is affecting all the infrastructure of the state," Ghalawanji said in a speech to parliament, broadcast by state television.

Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel stressed on Monday the need to reach an agreement over a parliamentary electoral law that offers best representation for all powers and which enjoys the greatest consensus.

He said after the party's weekly politburo meeting: “It is time for all sides to abandon their arrogance and reach an electoral law that offers real Christian representation.”

President Bashar Assad said he is confident his troops will win the conflict ravaging Syria, as new calls were made on Monday for the International Criminal Court to launch a probe into war crimes.

Assad's comments, published in Lebanon's As-Safir newspaper, came as the European Union renewed sanctions against Syria while amending them to enable nations to provide more "non-lethal" and technical support to help protect civilians.

A Vatican humanitarian delegation will travel to Jordan to meet with refugees from Syria and take part in a regional conference of Catholic charity Caritas starting on Tuesday, the Vatican said.

"The situation on a humanitarian level in (Syria) and the region as a whole has become untenable," the Vatican said in a statement on Monday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati denied on Monday reports saying that he resigned from his post as a premier, stressing that he is committed to the electoral draft-law proposed by his cabinet.

“We heard the news and laughed at it,” Miqati told reporters after a ministerial committee session at the Grand Serail.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat noted on Monday that constantly debating the possession of arms outside of the authority of the state will not help resolve this issue, stating that President Michel Suleiman had clearly stipulated that the national dialogue will help settle this dispute.

He said in his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa website: “Adhering to Baabda Declaration and Suleiman's principles is necessary to redirect the arms to their rightful role away from the Syrian crisis.”

Syrian rebels seized a key army checkpoint near Aleppo airport on Monday as they fought with troops to control several airports in the north, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

"The rebels seized a checkpoint several hundred meters (yards) away from Nayrab military airport," on the road leading to Aleppo international airport, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence France Presse.