The regional bloc will decide on its next move at a meeting in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday. Two senior Arab League senior officials told the Associated Press news agency that the organisation is likely to extend its monitoring mission, initiated to verify whether an Arab peace plan was working, after several nations that had been opposed to the extension changed their position in recent days.
The officials said on Friday that the direction within the Arab League is to keep the mission in place as the international community is not yet ready for "escalation" to an intervention in Syria. NATO's most senior officer said on Thursday that the alliance was not planning or even "thinking" of intervening in Syria.
The head of the opposition Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghaliun, headed to Cairo to lobby the Arab ministers to refer the observer mission's findings to the UN Security Council.
Human Rights Watch said there was no sign of any let-up in the authorities' crackdown, with activists reporting 506 civilians killed by the security forces and a further 490 detained since their deployment on December 26.
Arab observer have visited many towns but the mission has been criticised since killings have not stopped
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