More than 2,100 Syrian officers have fled to Jordan since the start of the conflict in their country in 2011, the kingdom's interior minister said in remarks published on Sunday.

"Jordan is hosting around 2,130 Syrian officers of different military ranks in a special military complex," Hussein Majali told the government-owned al-Rai daily.

France, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have agreed to strengthen the Syrian opposition in its battle against Bashar Assad's regime, the French presidency said Friday.

After a meeting in Paris, French President Francois Hollande and foreign ministers from the three countries "agreed on the need to strengthen international support for the democratic opposition to allow it to face attacks by the regime," the Elysee said in a statement.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will visit China to discuss Syria on Sunday, his ministry said, amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the crisis in the war-torn country.

On his way back, Fabius will hold talks on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, said Philippe Lalliot, a foreign ministry spokesman.

Jordan needs hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to cope with the mounting number of Syrian refugees, Social Development Minister Reem Abu Hassan said in Paris on Thursday.

There were already more than one million Syrian refugees in Jordan and health and education services were absolutely stretched, Abu Hassan told Agence France Presse.

A Jordanian MP was arrested after firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle in parliament at a colleague on Tuesday, without causing injuries, judicial and parliamentary sources said.

"The prosecutor general of Amman on Tuesday ordered the detention for 15 days of Talal al-Sharif after he opened fire on MP Qusay al-Damissi in the Chamber of Deputies building," said the judicial source.

The U.N. refugee agency and Syria's overburdened neighbors Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq on Wednesday urged the international community to put differences aside and find a common solution to end the "cycle of horror."

"We strongly appeal to the international community to overcome existing differences and come together to stop the fighting," Antonio Guterres, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said as he read a joint statement after talks with ministers from the four countries.

The World Bank is helping Lebanon prepare the ground to request an influx of international aid to offset the high costs of the spillover from the Syrian civil war, President Jim Yong Kim told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Kim said in an interview that the Lebanese government asked the World Bank to take the lead in preparing a quick assessment of the social and economic impacts of the war in neighboring Syria. This analysis will be presented during a Sept. 25 meeting of an international support group for Lebanon at the United Nations General Assembly.

Syria's neighbors are bracing for an influx of refugees fleeing their country in fear of U.S.-led military action, compounding what the U.N. has branded a "disgraceful humanitarian calamity."

The movement could deepen an already enormous regional refugee crisis.

The trial of radical cleric Abu Qatada, who faces terror charges in Jordan following his deportation from Britain, will start within 10 days, a Jordanian judicial source said Sunday.

"The state security court is scheduled to hear the first sittings in the trial of the radical Islamist Abu Qatada within the next 10 days, after the state prosecutor has finished investigating" Qatada's alleged involvement in attacks in the kingdom, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The Vatican on Thursday said talks in Syria were "the only option" out of the conflict, following a meeting between Pope Francis and Jordan's King Abdullah II.

The two "reaffirmed that the path of dialogue and negotiation between all components of Syrian society, with the support of the international community, is the only option to put an end to the conflict," the Vatican said in a statement.