A U.N. commission investigating the many serious rights violations in war-torn Syria should be allowed to continue its work and get more resources, according to a draft resolution presented in Geneva Friday.

The resolution drawn up by half-a-dozen other Arab states, which will be voted on at the U.N.'s Human Rights Council next week, calls for an extension of the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria.

NATO does not believe that military intervention in Syria would bring any improvement in the security situation there, a senior alliance official said Friday.

Germany's Manfred Lange, Chief of Staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), said the military was telling leaders that there was no good case for military action and the political process had to be pursued.

An Israeli soldier and three militants who infiltrated from Egypt's Sinai peninsula were killed in a clash along the border on Friday, the army said.

It said troops came under fire from gunmen who sneaked across the border, sparking a firefight which killed the three attackers.

Iraq on Friday denied permission for a North Korean aircraft to cross its airspace on its way to Syria over suspicions it would carry arms and advisers there, the Iraqi premier's spokesman said.

"Iraq forbade a North Korean airplane to cross its airspace on suspicion that it is carrying weapons and advisers for the Syrian side," Ali Mussawi told AFP, adding that the plane was supposed to cross on Saturday.

A Syrian opposition group tolerated by the government said on Friday that it had lost contact with two of its members who were returning from Damascus airport after a trip to China.

The two members of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change – Dr. Abdelaziz al-Khayer, head of its foreign relations office and Iyas Ayash, member of its executive committee member and leader of the Arab Socialist Movement -- had been met at the airport by a third member, Maher Tahan.

Syrian troops backed by helicopter gunships clashed with rebels near a barracks in Aleppo on Friday as battles broke out around a military airport elsewhere in the northern province, monitors said.

In Damascus, state news agency SANA said the army unearthed the bodies of 25 people shot execution-style in the Qadam district and blamed "armed terrorist groups," the regime's term for rebels.

Iran proudly paraded its military hardware in Tehran on Friday under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who used the event to again defiantly lash out at the West and Israel.

The display, involving thousands of military personnel, tanks and missiles borne on trucks, marked the anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

The veteran leader of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party told Agence France Presse that the authorities would crack down on hardline Salafists after deadly violence around the U.S. embassy, saying they pose a threat to the country's freedoms and security.

"Each time that parties or groups overstep our freedoms in a flagrant manner, we have to be tough, clamp down and insist on public order," Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi told AFP in an interview.

Israeli security forces wounded a 19-year-old Palestinian in the leg when they opened fire with live ammunition in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian medics said.

He was one of a group of young men throwing stones at Israelis manning a checkpoint at Beitunia, near Ramallah, and was taken to hospital in the city, the medics said.

Last week's deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi was a "terrorist attack," the White House confirmed Thursday.

"It is self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One. "Our embassy was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of American officials. That's self-evident."