Syria's Assad sees risk of Saudi, Turkish intervention

Damascus: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad sees a risk that Saudi Arabia or Turkey could launch a military intervention in his country, he has told AFP in an interview.

Speaking in Damascus on Thursday, he said he "doesn't rule out" such an intervention, but said that his armed forces "will certainly confront it".

The Syrian President also rejected the UN's recent accusations that his regime is guilty of war crimes, calling the claims "politicised".

The United Nations has lambasted Assad's government for "exterminating" prisoners in its jails and detention centres, but Assad said in the interview Thursday that the accusations "serve a political agenda... and do not provide any evidence."