For more on the incident at the Syrian embassy in Cairo, the AFP news agency had this report:

Scores of opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime stormed the Syrian embassy in Cairo on Friday before being dragged away by security forces, an AFP reporter said.

At least 200 protesters forced their way into the building in the Garden City neighbourhood in Cairo, breaking doors and windows, before Egyptian security officials arrived and took them out. No arrests were made.

The embassy was empty because Friday is a weekend day in Egypt.

Syrian Ambassador Yusef Ahmed headed to the embassy after the incident and said he would formally complain to the authorities.

The Syrian embassy is being targeted. We will be sending a formal letter calling for the embassy to be protected. The protection today was very weak," Ahmed told AFP.

The protesters "went into the building. They reached the floor where the ambassador's office is located. Unfortunately they were not resisted," he said as he walked over broken glass and into the building.

"This is a very serious development," he said.