Syria's government warned Saturday that its forces would resist any foreign ground intervention 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.

More than 120 members of Syrian regime forces and rebels were killed Friday in heavy fighting for a town north of Aleppo city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Britain-based monitor said rebels had regained control of more than half of the town of Ratyan in the fierce clashes, leaving about 60 opposition fighters and 60 regime forces dead.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam expressed on Friday his “satisfaction” with the results of the donors conference on Syria, revealing however that he has not yet been informed of Lebanon's share of the donations for Syrian refugees, reported Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5).

He said: “No one spoke to us of naturalizing the refugees.”

An Iranian general has been killed by jihadists in Syria, reports say, the latest high-profile casualty of Tehran's efforts to prop up President Bashar Assad.

Brigadier General Mohsen Ghajarian of the elite Revolutionary Guards was killed in the northern province of Aleppo, according to the Fars news agency, which is close to the Guards.

Russia on Thursday accused Turkey of actively preparing to invade Syria, saying it had spotted troops and military equipment on the border with the war-torn country.

"We have serious grounds to suspect Turkey is in intensive preparations for an armed invasion of the territory of a sovereign state -- the Syrian Arab Republic," the defense ministry said in a statement.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam warned on Thursday that Lebanon will “soon be unable to contain” the burden of Syrian refugees, demanding that improvements be made to the mechanism in which aid is made to the displaced.

He said: “We cannot accept the permanent residence of refugees in Lebanon and we demand that pledges be translated to action.”

World leaders pledged over $10 billion (9.0 billion euros) Thursday to help conflict-hit Syrians at a London conference overshadowed by the breakdown of peace talks in Geneva.

The European Union, Germany, Britain and the United States were among the biggest donors to provide food, education and job opportunities for Syrians in their homeland and neighboring countries where they have fled.

An aid convoy on Wednesday entered a regime-besieged town near Syria's capital, at a time when the opposition is demanding a lifting of blockades at peace talks in Geneva, the Red Cross announced.

"We entered with medical aid to Moadimayat al-Sham and we are distributing food aid in the buffer zone" between regime and rebel forces, Pawel Krzysiek, spokesman in Damascus of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told AFP.

Ambassador Christina Lassen, head of the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon, visited Wednesday the northern region of Akkar to meet with Syrian refugees in Kouachra, announced the EU on a statement.

The visit was organized together with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an important partner of the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO).

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat posted on Wednesday a number of humorous tweets to comment on the ongoing presidential vacuum in the country and Iran's alleged role in the issue, while also saying that Syria will restore its political hegemony over Lebanon.

He said: “It looks that our future president will come on a Persian carpet.”