• Syrian military helicopters have dropped leaflets over Damascus and its suburbs urging rebels to hand over their weapons or face 'inevitable death', AP reports.

• A resident of Darayya – the scene of a massacre at the weekend – has told the Guardian that troops demanded hospitality in people's homes, and then killed their hosts.

• Seven people are reported to have been killed in Jaramana district of Damascus when a car bomb exploded at a funeral for two government supporters.

• Air strikes have hit Kanfranbel, in Idlib province, reportedly killing at least 15 people.

• The pace of Syrian refugees arriving in Za'atri camp, in northern Jordan, has doubled, with 10,200 arriving in the past week, heralding what could be a bigger mass movement, the UN refugee agency has warned.

• China is hosting Egypt's newly elected president, despite its uneasiness with the Arab Spring revolution that helped bring him to power.