Syria's main political opposition, the Syrian National Coalition, is meeting in Istanbul to decide whether to go to next week's peace talks.
The coalition is under pressure from the US and its allies to participate in the Geneva II conference, though many of its members have already pulled out.
Some are reluctant to go unless President Bashar al-Assad is excluded from any transitional government.
Damascus says there should be no pre-conditions for the talks.
The three-year conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives.
An estimated two million people have fled the country and some 6.5 million have been internally displaced.
Huge doubts
The Syrian National Coalition is deeply divided, with its key bloc - the Syrian National Council - threatening to boycott the talks.
Of the 120 members of the coalition, 44 have already pulled out of the meeting in Switzerland.
But all of them - and their regional backers such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia - are under huge pressure from the Americans and others to take up the opportunity to achieve the goals of the Syrian revolution.
Source-BBC
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