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China will send experts "when asked" to help with the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
An Israeli soldier was shot dead on Sunday during a Jewish festival in the West Bank city of Hebron, a hotbed of tensions where some 500 Israeli settler families live among 100,000 Palestinians.
Three diplomats were injured in a mortar shell targeting Russian embassy in Damascus on Sunday as Syria handed over a chemical weapon report.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday in Moscow that he could not be 100-percent certain a US-Russian plan for the destruction of Syrian chemical arms would be carried out successfully.
Syria gave details of some of its chemical weapons to a UN-backed arms watchdog at The Hague on Friday but needs to fill in gaps by next week to launch a rapid disarmament operation. Putin hopeful on arms plan
Two bombs concealed in air conditioning units inside a Sunni mosque south of the Iraqi city of Samarra exploded during Friday prayers, killing at least 15 people, police and hospital sources said.
President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday it would cost about $1 billion to get rid of Syria's chemical weapons under a plan agreed to by Russia and the United States last week.
Jordan's King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein on Wednesday called on China to exert its influence to help resolve the conflict in Syria.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday hailed Russia's stance toward Damascus as giving hope for a new roadmap leading to "global balance," according to state- run SANA news agency.
China welcomes the framework agreement reached by the US and Russia on Saturday to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Tuesday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that President Hassan Rouhani had exchanged letters with U.S. President Barack Obama, confirming direct communication between the leaders of the two countries.
Fifty leaders in world medicine, including three winners of the Nobel prize, on Monday urged all combatants in Syria to spare hospitals, doctors and nurses, warning that the country's medical infrastructure was being deliberately targeted and was now on the brink of collapse.
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