Prime Minister Najib Miqati voiced fears that the deterioration of the situation in Syria will have dangerous repercussions in the region, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday from the Wall Street Journal.

He added that such a deterioration will also place Lebanon in a precarious position.

The United States said Friday it summoned the Syrian ambassador to Washington to read him "the riot act" after President Bashar al-Assad's supporters tried to attack the U.S. envoy in Damascus.

European nations on Friday dropped the word "sanctions" from a proposed U.N. Council resolution on Syria as they played a diplomatic word game to temper Russian opposition.

Twenty-seven people have been killed on Friday at the hands of Syrian security forces during anti-regime demonstrations that took place in various Syrian cities, according to activists.

The Syrian Revolution General Commission said that 27 people were killed and tens were wounded in the crackdown against protestors.

An international commission of inquiry into rights violations in Syria said on Friday it hoped to be allowed to visit the country, although it had not yet been in contact with Syrian authorities.

"Our hope is that the Syrian Arab Republic will cooperate and give us access to different authorities, and visit different locations," Sergio Pinheiro, the head of the international commission of inquiry on Syria told reporters.

Two weeks after Egypt's uprising swept aside Hosni Mubarak, the presidents of Iran and Syria stood side by side in Damascus in a blunt message to the Arab Spring: The Syrian regime can count on its allies in Tehran.

Seven months later — and after at least 2,700 deaths in Syria — Iran is tweaking its big brother role for Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Iranian leaders are now urging him to consider talks with protesters or risk heading down a path with few escape routes.

Syrian authorities have seized at the Jdeidet Yabous crossing weapons and ammunition being smuggled from Lebanon, the state run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), reported late Thursday.

The truck smuggling the arms had an Iraqi license plate, it said. Authorities found 125 machine pump-action shotguns and more than 30,000 bullets for pistols secretly hidden in the truck, SANA added.

Premier Najib Miqati has rejected reports about the isolation of Lebanon following his meetings with U.S. officials in New York and alleged warnings that the international community would adopt certain measures against the country if it didn’t back U.N. Security Council sanctions on Syria.

In remarks to satellite TV network al-Arabiya on Thursday, Miqati said: “Lebanon is not in isolation and no one can isolate it.”

Syrian security forces killed a civilian in the flashpoint central city of Homs on Friday, adding to six killed in the province the previous evening, two of them children, activists said.

The civilian was killed in the city's al-Khalidiya neighborhood, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday demanded that the Syrian government do everything possible to protect U.S. diplomats.

"We immediately raised this incident with the Syrian government," Clinton told reporters following an attack on the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford.