The number of Syrians who have flooded into Turkey to escape Islamic State (IS) militants has reached 100,000.

More than a dozen people died in clashes across Syria yesterday, opposition activists said, as a UN Security Council call for an immediate end to the fighting fell on deaf ears.

Dozens of Syrians were arrested in a series of security swoops across the country today, hours after the army smashed through a city at the centre of the uprising against President Bashar Assad.