A truck bomb attack killed at least 10 people at a village in the central Syrian province of Homs on Monday, state television said.

"The terrorist explosion in Haraqi village in Homs province was caused by a tanker truck bomb. The initial toll says 10 people were killed, and major damage was caused to houses," the television station reported.

Young mothers who fled Syria's war for dismal refugee camps in Lebanon struggle to imagine a future for their babies, even though they find their newborns a rare source of joy.

"My baby was born a refugee, and he faces a really tough future here," said Umm Khaled, nursing a newborn baby in a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at the border town of Arsal.

Syria on Sunday wrapped up campaigning for the June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar Assad to power, a vote the opposition brands a "parody of democracy."

With swathes of Syria out of government control, Tuesday's vote will only take place in regime-held territory, far from where Assad's forces are battling the rebels who seek to topple him.

The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said.

The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also killing his son, his grandson, his great-granddaughter and her mother, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

A Frenchman who spent over a year in Syria has claimed responsibility for last week's deadly shooting at a Jewish Museum in Brussels in a video recording, prosecutors said Sunday.

Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who was arrested by customs agents on Friday on arrival in the southern French city of Marseille, is believed to have recorded the claim in a 40-second video found in his possession along with a Kalashnikov and a handgun.

Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas revealed on Sunday that there are around 1,250 Syrian refugee camps distributed across Lebanese territories, stressing that there are certain standards established to organize their movement from and to their country.

“We are not being racist but there are around 1,250 random Syrian refugee camps,” Derbas said in comments to LBCI.

The army cordoned of on Sunday the area of Khreibet al-Jundi in the northern district of Akkar after several hand grenades were located near a Syrian refugee camp, which is adjacent to an office for al-Mustaqbal Movement.

The four hand grenades were found in an area between the refugee camp and the Mustaqbal movement office.

The Ministry of Interior on Saturday warned Syrian refugees that they must not travel to their country as of June 1, saying that otherwise their will lose their status as refugees.

The ministry announced in a released statement that Syrians and those registered with the UNHCR “must refrain from entering Syria as of June 1, 2014.”

A commander from Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been killed in Syria, media said Saturday, a disclosure that runs counter to Tehran's insistence it is not fighting alongside President Bashar Assad's forces.

Reports that Abdollah Eskandari died while "defending" a Shiite shrine emerged earlier this week but neither the elite military unit nor Iran's foreign ministry have passed comment.

The head of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim is scheduled to arrive in Lebanon on Monday on a two-day visit aimed at discussing the case of Syrian refugees in the country, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

Kim had expressed his dismay with the international community's support for Lebanon in helping it contain the burden of the refugees, noting that the country and Jordan are bearing the brunt of the displaced, said the daily.