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• The UN-Arab League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said he is "terribly sorry" about the failure of the truce in Syria, as violence continued on the fourth day of the ceasefire to mark Eid al-Adha. Brahimi said there were no plans to send UN peacekeepers to Syria but that he would not be discouraged by the continuing violence. He called on members of the security council to work towards peace.

• Opposition activists have reported shelling by government warplanes in a number of areas, including Aleppo, Damascus suburbs, Deir Ezzor and Idlib. The Local Coordination Committees activist group claims 68 people have been killed by government forces so far today, including eight (others put the death toll at 10) when a shell struck a bus in the al-Hajar al-Aswad neighbourhood of Damascus. Other activists said regime forces arrested survivors of the bus blast in hospital.

• A car bomb in a pro-regime area of Damascus has killed at least 10 people, state media said. The bomb exploded near a bakery in Jaramana, a predominately Christian and Druze area. Women and children were reportedly among the victims. Sana blamed the blast on "terrorists". It also blamed armed terrorist groups for violating the truce in Deir Ezzor, claiming that government troops were committed to upholding the ceasefire.

• About 150 members of the Syrian opposition are meeting in Istanbul today for the beginning of a three-day conference to focus on "transitional governance and management after the downfall of the Assad regime". Among the groups said to be represented are the Syrian National Council, the Kurdish National Council, the Damascus Declaration, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Syrian Revolution General Commission, the Local Coordinating Committees, the Free Syrian Army and local civil administration councils leaders from inside Syria

• Turkey has fired on Syrian forces close to its border after four mortar bombs struck the southern Turkish district of Hatay Province, Today's Zaman reported. The bombs landed after clashes between Syrian regime forces and opposition fighters escalated in the Syrian town of Harim, it said. The state-run Anatolia news agency reported that the Turkish army responded immediately with artillery fire. Tensions between the neighbours increased earlier this month after five Turkish civilians were killed by a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory.

• The Syrian National Council has joined Reporters Without Borders in condemning the kidnapping of Lebanese journalist Fidaa Itani by a group of Syrian rebels. A group calling itself the A’azaz Northern Storm Brigade has claimed responsibility for Itani’s abduction between the Syrian town of A’azaz and the Lebanese border, on Saturday, saying his work was "incompatible with the revolution". A video of Itani, appearing to be in good health, was released yesterday. In it, he said he was under house arrest and "fine".

• Iraq has searched an Iranian plane bound for Syria to check that it was not carrying weapons. It was the second such forced landing this month. No weapons were found on the previous occasion either. The head of the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority said the plane was released after they found only humanitarian aid on board. Iraq banned a North Korean plane from using its airspace on 20 September over suspicions it was carrying weapons to Syria.