The Latest: Syria rockets hit Turkish border town, 3 wounded

Turkey's state run news agency has raised the toll of wounded from a round of rockets that hit southern Turkey, saying three people were hurt.

Turkey's state run news agency says three rockets fired from Syria hit a town in southern Turkey, wounding two people.

Russia's ambassador to the international organizations in Geneva says extremists took control of the Syrian opposition group, effectively hijacking the Syrian peace talks.

Alexei Borodavkin told the Russian Tass news agency on Tuesday that "the suspension of the Syrian opposition delegation's participation in peace talks is proof that, unfortunately, extremists took control within the delegation."

Hijab complained that supplies and ammunition were denied to rebel forces during the truce period, which began in late February; meanwhile he said the Syrian government continued to receive aid from its allies.

Speaking to students in a Hague theater on Tuesday, Ban said the war "has been the scene of the use of chemical weapons, siege and starvation as a tool of war, unlawful detention, torture and indiscriminate and criminal shelling and aerial bombardment of civilians."

The head of the Syrian opposition negotiating team in Geneva says his coalition requires a clear timetable for the political transition in Syria, which he says can't include the incumbent President Bashar Assad.

According to Peskov, President Putin, when speaking to U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday, stressed the need to continue dialogue and maintain the current U.S.-Russia brokered ceasefire.

Syrian rebels and activists are reporting intensified fighting in the country's north and center, while a chief opposition negotiator says the conditions on the ground are not conducive to a political process.

The fighting in rural parts of the northern Latakia province, a government stronghold, and in the central Hama and Homs provinces Tuesday comes a day after the Syrian opposition said it is pausing its formal participation in the Geneva talks because of what it said were hundreds of government violations of a cease-fire agreement over two months.