US President Barack Obama and the Emir of Qatar Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani have agreed on coordinating in the next months to offer more support for the Syrian opposition.

US President Barack Obama and the Emir of Qatar Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani have agreed on coordinating in the next months to offer more support for the Syrian opposition and to find what they called “peaceful solution” for the Syrian crisis.

After their meeting in the White House on Wednesday, Obama told reporters that “the US is closely coordinating with Qatar and other countries in order to put an end for the massacre (in Syria) and to topple the President Assad.”

For his part, Hamad Al-Thani stated that solving the Syrian crisis “requires that the current government should hand over the power to the other party.”

However, Obama also “pressed” Qatar’s Emir “to ensure” that the massive amounts of weapons Qatar is shipping to armed opposition groups in Syria will not end up with the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front militants, The Washington Post reported.

Syria has been hit by a violent unrest orchestrated from outside the country since March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of government forces, have been killed in the violence carried out by a very large number of foreign militants.