An emergency room doctor was executed in Quneitira on orders of the Shariah Council after being kidnapped by the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham militia. Kurdish Defence units and rebel forces clashed in al Hasaka. Suicide and car bombs killed at least eight people in Damascus, and a car bombing in Aleppo killed 12 soldiers. The Syrian Foreign Minister said the regime was willing to take part in peace negotiations in Geneva, not to hand over power but to establish a unity government. A rights group accused regime forces of abusing and torturing female anti-government activists.
