US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday said he would meet representatives of the Syrian opposition in London, speaking shortly before taking off from the Zionist entity for the British capital

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday said he would meet representatives of the Syrian opposition in London, speaking shortly before taking off from the Zionist entity for the British capital.
  
"I will be meeting with the Syrian opposition in London," he told reporters before departing from Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv after three days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
  
But he said that Syrian rebel leader Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib was not expected to attend the meeting which would be hosted by British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "We're working on a list of attendees," he said.
  
Ahead of his arrival in the Zionist entity, Kerry was in Turkey on Sunday where he discussed the Syrian crisis, Turkish-Israeli rapprochement and the so-called Middle East peace process.
  
The US "preference... is to have a diplomatic solution" to the conflict and "a legitimate transfer of governing responsibility to an independent entity," Kerry said. "It sounds good, (but) the problem is you can't get there if President Assad is unwilling to decide that he should transfer that authority," he added.

Asked if the US might step up help to Syrian rebels including military aid, Kerry said it was "up to the White House to make any announcement."

At an Arab League summit in Doha last month, Khatib said he had asked Kerry to provide Patriot missile protection that encompasses northern Syria, and that Washington's top diplomat had "promised to look into the matter."