Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met Wednesday for talks on Syria with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, as the West weighs possible military strikes against Damascus.

The ministers discussed "developments on the Syrian arena," state news agency SPA reported, without giving further details.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday the suspected chemical attack in Syria was a crime against humanity that must not go unpunished.

Davutoglu was speaking as Western nations appeared to be gearing up to launch military strikes on Syria over the attack near Damascus last week that activists say left hundreds of people dead.

North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition, a Japanese daily said Tuesday, as the U.S. threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack.

A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as Al En Ti Sar, left North Korea for Syria earlier this year with the consignment, the Sankei Shimbun said, quoting unnamed sources from the US military, Japanese and South Korean intelligence.

Turkey will join an international coalition against neighboring Syria even if the U.N. Security Council fails to reach consensus on the issue, its foreign minister said in an interview published Monday.

"If a coalition is formed against Syria in this process, Turkey will take part in it," Ahmet Davutoglu told the Milliyet newspaper.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized Washington for its response to his claims of Israel's involvement in the Egypt crisis.

The Turkish leader on Tuesday accused the Jewish state of being behind the military-backed ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last month.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday a "red line was crossed" in Syria and called for international action following reports of a massacre involving chemical weapons.

"We call on the international community in this situation where the red line was crossed long ago to intervene as soon as possible," he said in Berlin after talks with his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle.

The Turkish currency fell further against the dollar and the borrowing rate on 10-year bonds jumped to 10.0 percent in morning trading on Thursday.

Traders were anxious about the prospects for a tightening of U.S. monetary policy after the release on Wednesday of minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve's last policy meeting.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stressed on Thursday that the security agencies are fully carrying out their tasks and fighting “terrorism,” in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

He pointed out that the security agencies are cooperating to reveal all the security schemes targeting the country.

Relatives of the Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped in Syria's Aazaz revealed on Wednesday that they are planning to file a complaint with the European Union against Turkey “for protecting the abductors.”

"Turkey must stop its maneuvers and release the abducted pilgrims because it is the party responsible for their freedom,” stated Sheikh Abbas Zgheib, who has been tasked by the Higher Islamic Shiite Council to follow up the case of the pilgrims.

Iraq's oil exports to Turkey were halted Wednesday by three bombings that targeted an oil pipeline north of Baghdad, the latest in a series of such attacks this year.

The apparently coordinated attacks took place between 3:00 am (0000 GMT) and 5:00 am, in the northern provinces of Nineveh and Kirkuk.