The Arab League will call on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution creating a joint peacekeeping force for Syria.

Arab League officials say the 22-member group is considering reviving its suspended observer mission in Syria, expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab, Muslim nations and maybe involvement by the United Nations.

The Gulf states are to quit the Arab League observer mission in Syria after President Bashar Assad rejected a plan to end the country’s bloodshed.

The head of the Arab League warned today that Syria may be sliding toward civil war, as security forces fired on thousands of people who poured into the streets in support of army defectors.

The Arab League has demanded that the Syrian government immediately stop all violence and allow more monitors in, as activists reported at least 10 more civilians, including two teenagers, were killed by regime forces.