Turkey said on Friday it might set up a border “buffer zone” to protect growing numbers of Syrian refugees fleeing a violent uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad…

The UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan was due to brief the United Nations Security Council later in the day on his efforts to end the violence, but there was no sign of any breakthrough…

Turkey set up such a zone along the border with Iraq during the Gulf War in the early 1990s when tens of thousands of refugees headed towards its territory.