United Nations, February 19 (RHC)-- The United Nations has warned against involvement by more parties in the Syrian conflict amid calls by Saudi Arabia and Turkey to roll their war machines into the battle-scarred country.

Riyadh has vowed to contribute special forces to a potential ground warfare component in the so-called U.S.-led coalition, which has been pounding Syria since 2014 without success in its proclaimed goal of routing the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group there.  Turkey has also been repeatedly insisting on what it calls a need for sending its ground troops into Syria.

In a letter to the UN Security Council, the world body’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon advised against adherence to the "bankrupt logic of a military victory" and suggested working instead to find a peace settlement.