The world community must document the atrocities being carried out by the government of Syria against its people to ensure justice is done, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday.

"We must document the evidence so that those guilty of crimes may be held responsible, whatever it takes," Cameron, who held talks at the White House with President Barack Obama, told reporters at a joint press conference.

A fragile truce that ended four days of violence between Israel and Gaza militants appeared to be largely holding on Wednesday, despite sporadic rocket fire and air raids.

Israeli police said a rocket was fired from Gaza at the southern city of Beersheva on Wednesday evening, but was brought down by the Iron Dome missile defense system with no reports of casualties.

The Kuwaiti parliament voted on Wednesday to set up probes into allegations of corruption, smuggling and torture, the state KUNA news agency reported.

Members of the new opposition-dominated parliament agreed to set up two commissions of inquiry into allegations of corruption relating to members of the previous parliament, KUNA said.

"Assad has killed so many people that he deserves a fate worse than Gadhafi’s," spits Ammar al-Wawi, a one-time Syrian officer now second-in-command of the rebel Free Syrian Army.

And despite the fact that the FSA, "armed only with Kalashnikovs and pistols," is at an overwhelming disadvantage against the tanks and artillery of Bashar al-Assad's army, Wawi says he is convinced the president will fall.

China's Syria envoy Zhang Ming was to hold meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Paris, the French foreign ministry said, but he was not due to meet top-level officials.

Western nations including France have been at loggerheads with China and Russia over the unrest in Syria, with the two powers blocking United Nations Security Council resolutions on the crisis.

Four men move deftly and carefully across a field, their silhouettes outlined by the light of a full moon, bearing a stretcher.

Five lives are at stake as they hasten to carry to safety in nearby Turkey a man shot during a demonstration in the Syrian city of Hama against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on Wednesday pressed President Bashar al-Assad to quickly answer proposals to end Syria's strife ahead of a new diplomatic surge aimed at passing a Security Council resolution on the crisis.

Annan, who on Friday will brief the U.N. Security Council on his mission, announced that he has received one response from Assad's government.

France has sent its senior human rights envoy to countries bordering Syria to collect evidence to level against the regime in the International Criminal Court, diplomats said Wednesday.

Ambassador Francois Zimeray is "in the region" to collect testimony from Syrian refugees and witnesses to the fighting in order that France can lodge a complaint with the court against Bashar al-Assad's regime, they said.

Representatives of Yemen's ultra-conservative Salafist community agreed on Wednesday to form a political union, they announced at the end of a two-day conference.

"The conference has decided to form a political entity -- Yemen's Al-Rashad (righteousness) Union," they said in a statement.

Kuwait agreed a $500 million deal with Baghdad during a visit by Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday, ending a decades-long debt dispute that saw an Iraqi Airways flight impounded in London.

The agreement comes amid a two-day trip by Maliki and several of his senior ministers ahead of an Arab League summit in Baghdad at the end of the month, the first to be held in the Iraqi capital since now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.