AMMAN (Reuters) - A senior Syrian National Council official said on Friday that Lebanese Shi'ite men abducted by Syrian rebels this week were still in the hands of rebels but would be handed over to Turkey soon. "We are still working on the handover. They are still with the armed group," Ahmad Ramadan told Reuters, speaking from Istanbul. (Reporting by Khaled Oweis; editing by Tim Pearce)

GENEVA (Reuters) - International peace mediator Kofi Annan will visit Syria "soon," his spokesman told Reuters on Friday, in what would be the former U.N. Secretary-General's first visit since he presented his peace plan to Syria's government in early March. Ahmad Fawzi declined to give details or specify the date, citing security reasons. Fawzi has repeatedly said that Annan, whose six-week-old ceasefire plan has failed to stop the violence in Syria, would travel to the country when the time was right. U.N. envoys said on Thursday that Annan may travel to Syria before the end of the month. ...

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