The opposition Syrian National Council said Friday it will rejoin the umbrella coalition from which it withdrew in protest at the Geneva peace talks with the regime.

The SNC, the biggest bloc in Syria's opposition-in-exile, quit the National Coalition on January 20 because of its participation in the talks.

Syrian warplanes on Friday carried out several raids on several areas in the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal in the Bekaa, the state-run National News Agency reported, as al-Nusra Front executed two men who support the regime.

"Syrian fighter jets launched strikes on the al-Zamarani valley in the Arsal region," NNA said in the afternoon.

First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida demanded on Friday the death penalty for Salafist cleric Ahmed al-Asir and several of his supporters over the Abra clashes with the army near the southern city of Sidon.

Media reports said that Abu Ghida requested the death penalty to al-Asir and 56 others.

Radical jihadists begin withdrawing from parts of northern Syria Friday after a threat from rivals, in a bid to protect their stronghold in the east of the war-ravaged country.

The main bloc in Syria's opposition in exile, meanwhile, announced it would rejoin the umbrella coalition it split from in a bid to close ranks against the regime.

An Iranian parliamentary delegation, headed by Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi, stressed on Friday that Hizbullah's intervention in Syria is to safeguard Lebanon, calling for democratic presidential elections.

“Hizbullah's involvement (in the ongoing conflict in Syria) is to protect Lebanon's sovereignty and independence,” Boroujerdi said after talks with Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil at the Bustros Palace.

President Michel Suleiman discussed with Hizbullah's state minister for parliamentary affairs Mohammed Fneish the latest developments concerning the cabinet's policy statement and the Israeli raid that targeted one of the party's posts in the Bekaa town of Janta.

Suleiman voiced hope that the ministerial panel tasked with drafting a policy statement should swiftly reach an agreement over disputed issues to prevent further delay in the parliament's confidence vote, An Nahar newspaper reported.

The U.N. mediator for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who oversaw peace talks in Geneva that ended in failure, will report to the U.N. Security Council next month, a U.N. spokesman said Thursday.

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Brahimi would brief the council sometime during the week of March 10-16.

The United States on Thursday denounced what it said was the growing use of security forces by repressive regimes to crackdown on a worldwide groundswell of pro-democracy protests.

"The fundamental struggle for dignity, for decency in the treatment of human beings... is a driving force in all of human history," Secretary of State John Kerry said as he released his department's 2013 human rights report.

Foreign Minister Jebra Bassil on Thursday asked Lebanon's envoy to the United Nations to file a complaint against Israel over the two airstrikes it waged on the Bekaa town of Janta.

"Bassil asked ambassador Nawaf Salam to hand over the complaint to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon,” the state-run National News Agency said.

Jordanian Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, on trial for terrorism, lashed out Thursday at jihadists in Syria for imposing a special tax on Christians under their control, saying their ideas were "distorted and extreme."

"The tax imposed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Christians in some areas in Syria is not acceptable," Abu Qatada told reporters during his trial in Amman.