Meanwhile, in Syria’s neighboring country of Lebanon, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke out on the Syria crisis on Tuesday in a speech to supporters in Beirut. Nasrallah called for dialogue between Assad and the Syrian opposition.

Hassan Nasrallah: “Those who are afraid for the people of Syria and the future of Syria do not say it’s too late, and set conditions for dialogue: either the president stands down or no dialogue. Those who care about Syria should go to dialogue. In every crisis in Lebanon, when the Arabs came to resolve the crisis, they called us to a dialogue and said, 'No conditions.' So now why in Syria do they call for dialogue with preconditions?’’