Syrian refugees polled in Jordan fear they might not be able to return home despite desperately wanting go back to Syria, according to an Oxfam survey released on Wednesday.

As protests against President Bashar Assad that erupted in March 2011 have descended into a bloody civil war, 2.5 million Syrians have fled abroad and another 6.5 million have been internally displaced.

Three people were injured on Tuesday when rockets fired from Syria landed in various Bekaa towns.

At least 4 rockets fired from Syria hit the al-Qantara area in al-Nabi Sheet's outskirts, said MTV.

Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose embattled regime relies on key support from Russia, praised Moscow on Tuesday for restoring balance to international relations, state media reported.

"Russia has reestablished balance in international relations, after long years of hegemony" by the United States, SANA quoted Assad as saying as he received a Russian parliamentary delegation.

Albanian police on Tuesday arrested seven people suspected of "acts of terrorism related to Syria" that include allegedly recruiting and training volunteer fighters, justice officials said.

The seven were arrested in various locations in the capital Tirana and several other Albanian towns and police seized a large quantity of ammunition, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

At least seven people were killed on Tuesday in a triple suicide bomb attack at a hotel in the Kurdish Syrian city of Qamishli, an NGO said, updating an earlier toll.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three suicide bombers blew themselves up at the Hadaya hotel in Qamishli, killing seven people including four women.

The Syrian government freed only 25 prisoners — and not the 150 reported by foreign mediators — in exchange for 13 Greek Orthodox nuns who had been held by al-Qaida-linked rebels, the country's information minister said Tuesday.

Qatari and Lebanese officials, who were mediating between Damascus and the rebels holding the nuns, said previously that 150 women prisoners were released early Monday.

Some survive by eating animal feed, others are reduced to living off vegetable peel. The human degradation in Syria, notably in areas besieged by the army, has reached levels unimaginable three years ago.

Since the protests against President Bashar Assad in March 2011 descended into a bloody civil war, images of Syrian civilians suffering have become commonplace.

The number of children affected by Syria's war doubled in the past year to 5.5 million, the U.N. said Tuesday, a heartrending picture of an entire generation on the verge of being lost.

And in a report entitled "Under Siege -- the devastating impact on children of three years of conflict in Syria," the U.N. children's agency UNICEF warned that the situation was likely to get worse.

The Syrian opposition said Monday that 141 women prisoners were freed from regime jails as part of a swap deal involving the release of 13 nuns abducted from the Syrian Christian town of Maalula.

“We have information that 141 women were released,” opposition activist Hadi al-Abdallah, who filmed a video showing the exchange of prisoners, told Agence France Presse.

The World Food Program said Monday insecurity in Syria was cutting off half a million people from the food aid they need, while a lack of funds has also forced the U.N. food agency to slash rations.

Three years into Syria's bloody civil war, the WFP said in recent weeks it had reached a number of areas in the governorates of Damascus, Homs, Raqqa and Daraa that had long remained inaccessible.