51�Թ�

However, it rejected "foreign intervention" when Israel carried out strikes south of Damascus on Wednesday during clashes between Druze gunmen, security forces and allied Sunni Islamist fighters.

A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a suspected assassination.

But by then, Sunni gunmen were already converging on the Jaramana neighborhood.

The official said 16 of his men had been killed when they were attacked with RPGs and machine guns by Druze gunmen.

Police are searching for a gunman who wounded three people in a shooting in Boyle Heights on Monday afternoon, authorities said.