The UN added the Al Nusrah Front to its list of global terrorist groups. Saudi Arabia has prevailed over Qatar in assuming sponsorship and supervision of the Syrian opposition. Syrian state media claimed that Ali Al-Manasfi, of London, was killed in an ambush by Syrian government forces in Idlib. Al-Manasfi was said to be traveling in a car with an American woman and another Westerner, photographing Syrian military positions for rebel forces, when they were killed. The woman, Nicole Mansfield, was a Muslim convert from Flint, Mich. The US and Germany warned Russia not to go ahead with arms sales to Syria.
