Arab and Western countries opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have agreed to provide military aid to rebels fighting his regime during a meeting in Doha, Qatar. In a statement, 11 countries in the Friends of Syria group pledged to “provide urgently all the necessary materiel and equipment to the opposition on the ground.” They also condemned the intervention on Assad’s side of fighters from the militant group Hezbollah. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the move at a news conference.

John Kerry: “What is clear is that every country committed today to step up what it is doing in direct response to what has happened on the ground, and also what is different is that this is now in response to what Iran and Hezbollah are doing.”

Fierce fighting raged over the weekend in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and capital, Damascus.