Syria regime warns against any foreign ground `aggression`

Damascus: Syria`s government warned Saturday against any foreign ground intervention in its war after reports that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which both support rebel forces, could send in troops.

"Any ground intervention on Syrian territory without government authorisation would amount to an aggression that must be resisted," Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said at a news conference in Damascus.

"We assure you that any aggressor will return to his country in a wooden coffin."