The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group beheaded a four-year-old girl in Syria after she refused to obey her mother's wish for her to go home, according to a report.
A suicide bomber on Sunday killed three people in an attack thought to have targeted the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II.
US-backed Syrian forces edged closer to an Islamic State stronghold on the border with Turkey on Saturday while Russia's defense minister visited President Bashar al Assad to discuss military operations.
There is enough evidence for an indictment and the report is in effect a "road map for future prosecution", a press conference launching the report was told.
At least eight people were killed and scores wounded in twin suicide and car bomb blasts on Saturday in a Damascus suburb that contains Syria's holiest Shi'ite Muslim shrine, state television said.