Yaum newspaper said that the Syrian regime's refusal of the initiative of the President of the Syrian National Coalition for the release of 160 detainees in the prisons of Al-Assad regime to start a dialogue between the regime and the opposition and to facilitate the departure of the regime was expected, adding that Al-Assad regime has strong reasons to reject the initiative. Al-Riyadh newspaper commented on the American-Russian consensus on Syria saying that the U.S.-Russian stance agrees on the initiative of the Syrian coalition's president Maaz Khatib. Al-Sharq newspaper highlighted the growing suffering of Syrians due to the continued conflict in their country.
