Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud has referred to as on voters to assist Syrians.
He has entailed launching a campaign to lift funds "in support of our brothers in Syria" beginning on Monday.
The announcement comes amid a spike in deadly battles across Syria, where quite nineteen, thousand individuals are killed since an uprising erupted virtually year and a half ago against the regime of Syrian bloody dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Meanwhile, fierce battles are continuing across Syria.
Alawite forces have deployed helicopter gunships as they battle rebels within the Syrian capital, witnesses say.
The besieged opposition stronghold of Barzeh was beneath significant assault on Sunday, in step with activists.
"This is that the initial time Damascus has witnessed such fierce shelling", Thabet Salem, a journalist in Damascus, told Al Jazeera. "There are terribly huge explosions".
The native Coordination Committees, an activist network, said "many people were injured" as a result of rocket and helicopter shelling of the Grand Mosque in Barzeh that set the mosque on fireplace.
Alawite forces reportedly conjointly deployed within the outskirts of the Mezzeh district. Residents said rebels withdrew from the district once significant aerial and ground bombardment.
Fighting conjointly engulfed many district of Aleppo, Syria's main industrial hub, on Sunday. Residents reported clashes close to the most intelligence base within the town.
An activist told the AFP news agency that Alawite troops launched an assault on the Salaheddin district at dawn during a bid to reclaim it from rebel hands.
"Violent clashes are going down since the first morning", the activist said.
Rebels have stepped up operations in Damascus within the last week and have conjointly launched a series of attacks on border crossings with neighboring countries.
They captured the Bab al-Salam crossing with Turkey on Sunday morning, additionally to the Bab al-Hawa post seized earlier within the week.
Iraqi puppet officers said, however, that Alawite forces had regained management of 1 of 2 border crossings seized by rebels on the frontier with Iraq.
Fighters had briefly taken management of the Rabia outpost on Saturday evening, once seizing the Albu Kamal crossing additional south on Thursday evening.
Rami Khoury, a journalist and Middle East analyst in Beirut, said rebel forces became a lot of coordinated and higher equipped within the last 2 months and predicted that their recent gains mark "the starting of the end" for the regime.
"Clearly this is often a regime that's being cornered and encircled", he told Al Jazeera. "While the regime contains a heap of power that it uses to pound the rebels and attack them, politically, the regime is being confined to smaller and smaller areas".
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said quite nineteen, thousand individuals are killed in Syria since the uprising began.
"At least nineteen,106 people, most of them civilians, are killed since March last year", the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman told the AFP.
They included thirteen, 296 civilians, 4,861 Alawite thugs and 949 defectors, he said, noting that the civilian toll included folks that had taken up arms against the regime.
"The toll doesn't embrace the thousands of individuals missing in detention", he said. "Nor will it embrace thousands of troopers whose deaths the regime has hid, during a bid to stay the army's morale high".
It is not possible to independently verify death toll accounts from Syria.
The Observatory said 164 individuals were killed in battles across Syria on Saturday, as well as eighty six civilians, forty nine Alawite troopers and twenty nine rebels.
In Damascus, those killed included a senior Alawite army general and weapons skilled, assassinated by "unidentified gunmen" within the historic district of Bab Touma, in step with the cluster.
The capital and its suburbs are engulfed by intense fighting for every week, with Alawite troops recapturing the Midan neighborhood from rebels on Friday.
"In Damascus, individuals still search desperately for safety", the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said during a statement in Geneva on Sunday.
"Humanitarian wants are growing because the scenario within the town worsens and as massive numbers of individuals flee their neighborhoods in search of cover. The ICRC and therefore the Syrian Arab Red Crescent have intensified their response to the situation".
Most retailers in Damascus were closed and there was solely light-weight traffic. several petrol stations were closed, having run out of fuel, and people that were open had huge lines of cars waiting to stock up. Residents conjointly reported long queues at bakeries.
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