Lebanon pleaded Monday for more international support to tackle the huge influx of refugees from the war-ravaged country, warning the burden could destabilize the whole region.

"We are calling on the international community to bear its responsibility," caretaker Minister of Social Affairs Wael Abou Faour told diplomats gathered in Geneva, slamming the lack of assistance from outside the region.

Jordan has protested to Syria after a shell landed in the kingdom's north during clashes between the Syrian army and rebels, the information minister said on Sunday.

"The foreign ministry has sent a written protest to the Syrian embassy in Amman after a shell landed Thursday night on Al-Falah mosque, near the industrial park in the northern city of Ramtha," Mohammad Momani said in a statement carried by state-run Petra news agency.

Hackers have attacked the official website of the Jordanian prime minister's office, the information minister said on Sunday, in a protest over rising prices.

"We have restored the website after it was hacked last night for several hours," Mohammad Momani told Agence France Presse.

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday pleaded for more support for the swelling number of Syrian refugees, warning that his country was overwhelmed.

Abdullah said that Jordanians -- also major hosts of Palestinian and Iraqi refugees -- "have opened their arms to those in need, as we have always done."

Three Syrian men have gang-raped a 14-year-old girl in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp, a government official said on Tuesday.

"Police have arrested a Syrian man and are searching for two other Syrian men who gang-raped a 14-year-old Syrian girl in Zaatari on Monday," Brigadier Waddah Hmud, head of the Syrian refugee department, told Agence France Presse.

Jordan's opposition Islamists on Tuesday denounced an Egyptian court's decision to ban all Muslim Brotherhood activities, saying the ruling sought to "reestablish oppression and tyranny."

"Egypt's military coupists took this decision against people's will after they failed to win their confidence," Zaki Bani Rsheid, deputy leader of Jordan's Brotherhood, said on Facebook.

A military tribunal jailed five Jordanian Muslim hardliners on Monday for trying to join the al-Qaida-linked Al-Nusra Front to fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, a court official said.

"The state security court sentenced the five Salafist convicts, who have ties of friendship, to five years in jail with hard labor each for attempting to infiltrate Syria and join Al-Nusra and fight the Syrian regime," he told Agence France Presse.

A military tribunal jailed six Muslim extremists Wednesday for trying to join the al-Qaida-linked Al-Nusra Front to fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces, a court official said.

"The state security court sentenced the six Salafist men to two and a half years in jail each for attempting to infiltrate Syria and join Al-Nusra and fight the Syrian regime," he told Agence France Presse.

Jordan's King Abdullah II held talks on the Syrian crisis with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, he said during a state visit.

In a meeting with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the king described China as "a team member of the United Nations Security Council and a friend of Jordan and the Middle East.”

A Jordanian man was sent to jail on Monday for joining the al-Qaida-linked Al-Nusra Front to fight against the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a judicial official said.

The military state security court initially sentenced the man to five years in prison but immediately halved the prison term, the official told Agence France Presse.