(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - European and American officials as well as the high-ranking officials of the United Nations, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his deputies, are taking trips to the region to give their back up to high-level secret talks on the possibility of launching a military attack Syria, Palestinian al-Manar weekly quoted informed sources as saying.
The report said Saudi Arabia and Qatar have also been present in these talks, adding that the top secret meetings are focused on studying various war plans against Damascus.
The report further pointed to the various measures adopted by the aforementioned sides to pave the ground for a foreign military intervention in Syria, and reminded that the UN has in a sudden move recently decided to increase the number of international forces stationed in Golan Heights under the pretext of confronting any unprecedented event.
According to a recent report by French newspaper Le Figaro, French military agents have held face-to-face meetings with the members of militant groups inside Syria to identify "recipients for possible weapons supplies".
The French military advisors were sent to "assess the situation on the ground", the report said.
"Their main task was to know who controls the battlegrounds around Damascus," the paper stated according to a press tv report.
The meetings were held last month and an unnamed French military source has confirmed them, the report said, adding that the French government wants to know the "operational capacity of each group" and their "political colors".
US and British agents have also held talks with the militants inside Syria recently, the report added.
France became the first European country to recognize Syria's opposition coalition on November 13.
The French government has said it would consider the issue of arming the militants against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011.
The Syrian government says that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and that certain Western states and their regional allies such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have been trying to fuel the turmoil.
There are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.
Several international human rights organizations have accused the foreign-sponsored militants of committing war crimes.
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