Syria's Western-backed opposition has agreed to take part in international peace talks in Geneva, if conditions are met.
The decision to try to end more than two years of civil war was reached after two days of talks by the Syrian National Coalition.
The coalition's leader had previously expressed a willingness to agree to the talks which will be attended by the Syrian regime, but this is the first time the group as a whole has committed to the proposed conference.
But the coalition outlined conditions that must be met before talks can go ahead, including guaranteed access to relief agencies to besieged areas and the release of political prisoners, especially woman and children.
"All we can do is hope is that these (Geneva) talks will end with the departure of Bashar al Assad," said Adib Shishakly, a member of the coalition.
The US and Russia, which are sponsoring the talks, are trying to get the negotiations under way by the end of this year.
Some Islamist rebel factions have declared their opposition to the Geneva process if the conference does not result in President Bashar al Assad's removal, and others have said they would charge anyone who attended the planned international talks with treason.
Human Rights Watch criticises the use of incendiary weapons in Syria The breakthrough comes as the Syrian government is accused of using incendiary weapons in dozens of attacks over the past year.
Incendiary weapons can contain any number of flammable substances, including napalm, thermite, or white phosphorus.
Human Rights Watch claimed a half-ton bomb killed 37 people at a school in Aleppo on August 26.
British emergency doctor Saleyha Ahsan, who treated the patients, told HRW that most of them were covered in burns.
Of one victims, she said: "The clothes had been burned off him. It was the most horrific injury I have ever seen in a live patient. Only his eyes moved."
HRW said that since last November, when it documented one of the first cases of incendiary bomb use in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syrian jets and helicopters had dropped incendiary bombs at least 56 times. All of the weapons were made in the Soviet Union, it said.
President Assad's forces have used cluster bombs and vacuum bombs and are accused by the West of firing rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin into districts outside Damascus in August, killing hundreds.
More than 100 countries - but not Syria - have signed up to an international convention banning their use in areas with "concentrations of civilians".
But loopholes and inconsistencies limit its effectiveness, HRW said.
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