National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change

Syrian authorities have released two prominent members of the domestic opposition who were arrested on Dec. 30 as they travelled to Riyadh to meet other regime opponents, their party said.

Syrian opposition representatives met in Cairo on June 8 in a bid to forge a new, broader alliance against President Bashar Al-Assad's regime and agree on a roadmap for ending the conflict.

The new grouping would offer an alternative to the National Coalition, the exiled opposition bloc that is widely recognized and supported by Arab and Western governments, organizers said.

Talks on ending the war in Syria were set to start in Moscow April 6 but the absence of key opposition groups meant there was little hope of progress in resolving the conflict.
      

Syria's main domestic and exiled opposition groups has said they had agreed a joint draft roadmap for the first time, calling for a transitional governing body and an end to the brutal conflict.