Turkey has extended by another year its regional command of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, the foreign ministry said in a statement Thursday.

Turkey, NATO's sole Muslim member, has been in charge of the Kabul regional command since November 1, 2009, after an earlier eight-month stint in 2007.

President Bashar Assad has hit out at Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, accusing them of arming Syrian rebels but insisting they will not win, according to excerpts from an interview to appear in an Egyptian newspaper on Friday.

"They suddenly saw money in their hands after a long period of poverty and think they can buy history and play a regional role," Assad told al-Ahram al-Arabi, which put excerpts from the interview on its website on Thursday.

Shelling by Syrian government forces trying to win back a border post seized by rebels left two Turkish civilians wounded Thursday, a Turkish official told AFP.

They were injured by four fragments of a shell that exploded just on the Syrian side of the border, the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that another unexploded shell was found and the area sealed off while it was detonated.

Two Turkish lawyers have asked prosecutors to indict the assistant director and the producer of the anti-Islam film that has sparked deadly protests around the Muslim world, they said Thursday.

Ozlem Gezeker and Ozgur Meric Turan, registered lawyers in Ankara, have asked prosecutors in the Turkish capital to try the creators of the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" under Turkish law for "attacking moral values" and "religious hatred", they said in a statement.

Syrian rebels seized control of a border crossing on the Turkish frontier on Wednesday after clashes with troops loyal to President Bashar Assad, a Turkish official told Agence France Presse.

Turkish media footage showed Syrian rebels pulling down the Syrian flag at the Tall al-Abyad border post on the main highway between the city of Raqa in northeastern Syria and the Turkish city of Sanliurfa.

A regional prosecutor in eastern Turkey was critically wounded on Wednesday in an attack blamed on Kurdish rebels, a security source told Agence France Presse.

Murat Uzun, chief prosecutor in the Ovacik district of the eastern Tunceli province, was wounded in an assault allegedly staged by two members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), including one woman, who fled after the attack, the source said on condition of anonymity.

A Turkish jet that crashed in June was downed after a Syrian missile exploded nearby in international airspace, the army said Wednesday, three months after an incident that heightened tensions between the two neighbors.

The probe by the army prosecutor into the downing of the two-seater F4 Phantom found that it crashed into the eastern Mediterranean after a Syrian missile exploded near its rearside, the army said in a statement.

Three civilians were wounded by stray bullets fired from the Syrian border post of Tall al-Abyad where rebels have been clashing with regime forces, local media reported Wednesday.

A woman, one of the three wounded, was in critical condition, the private NTV television said quoting Emre Akgun, mayor of Akcakale district in the southeastern Sanliurfa province.

The Syrian regime had considered supplying chemical weapons to Hizbullah as a war between the party and Israel will “only be good for Syria,” the former head of Syria's chemical arsenal told The Times newspaper in an interview published Wednesday.

Major-General Adnan Sillu said he defected from the Syrian army three months ago after being party to top-levels talks about the use of chemical weapons on both rebel fighters and civilians.

The Syrian army and rebel forces clashed on Tuesday in the north of the country Tuesday for control of the Tall al-Abyad border post with Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Heavy machine gun fire and exploding shells could be heard from the Turkish side of the border near the town of Akcakale, where town hall officials asked residents by loud speakers to stay away from the border.