Leading opposition figures in Syria on Sunday lambasted calls from abroad-based opposition as well as some Western and Arab countries for arming Syrian rebels, warning it would bring about all-out civil war.

"We are against the calls of arming the opposition because it would be the key to an all-out civil war," Hassan Abdul-Azim, head of the home-based opposition National Coordination Body, told Xinhua on Sunday.

"Arming the opposition would shed more blood, and we are against it," Azim said, suggesting that "there are several peaceful democratic means that should be followed in order to solve the Syrian crisis."

Syria's abroad-based opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) declared last week in Paris that it would probably inaugurate a military representation in Turkey to provide weapons to President Bashar al-Assad's opponents.

SNC chief Burhan Ghalioun told reporters that a new "military bureau" would coordinate the armed resistance and act as a conduit for foreign countries seeking to send arms to Syria.

Luai Hussain, head of the Building Syria State party, lashed out at the SNC, saying "those who call for arming the rebels have blood on their hands and thus they don't have the right to set conditions for dialogue or negotiations."

He said that the Friends of Syria conference, which took place in Tunis last month, had given Saudi Arabia and Qatar the chance to support the armed groups in Syria.

"These calls represent a strong push to an all-out civil war," Hussain said, describing the calls as "indirect military intervention."

Representatives of Saudi Arabia and Qatar urged arming the Syrian opposition, while Turkey, once a key alley to Syria, has as well overtly expressed support to such calls.

On Sunday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham made the same call, saying: "We need to help the rebels militarily, economically, and let Assad know that he is an international outlaw and be held accountable."

"I think the Arab League would be a good vehicle to provide military assistance to the opposition forces and we should consider that," Graham told the Fox "News" program on Sunday.

Some Western countries, including the United States, are unwilling to directly send troops to Syria, but are ready to arm the Syrian opposition.

A general in the opposition militia, known as the Free Syria Army, has told journalists in restive Homs that the rebels have received French and American military assistance.

"French and American assistance has reached us and is with us," the unnamed general told Reuters.

"We now have weapons and anti-aircraft missiles and, God willing, with all of that we will defeat Bashar (al-Assad)," he added.

The Syrian government has repeatedly accused Arab and Western countries of tunneling weapons to the armed groups in Syria in addition to rendering financial support to them.

Countries, such as Russia and China, have maintained that political solution is the best option to the Syrian crisis.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi introduced China's latest six-point statement on Syria during a telephone conversation Sunday night with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi, calling for a political solution.

Al-Arabi said he appreciated and highly regarded the statement, which was comprehensive and positive.

Also on Sunday, convoys of Syria's Red Crescent, with representatives of the International Red Cross, entered the Abil village in south of Homs and distributed hygiene kits, food and other necessities to people escaping from violence in the flashpoint neighborhood Baba Amr.

Khalid Ariksusi, a Red Crescent official, told Xinhua that the Red Crescent and the Red Cross will enter Baba Amr soon.

He said aid workers are due to enter the Insha'at neighborhood in Homs on Monday.

Baba Amr has been the epicenter of armed confrontation between government troops and armed rebels comprised partly by army defectors.

Earlier in the day, the private al-Watan newspaper said Syrian army troops seized Baba Amr from armed groups, which had controlled the area for nearly a month.

But Arab TV channels quoted a statement from the armed rebels as saying that they made a "tactical pullout" from Baba Amr because of shortage in weapons and deteriorating humanitarian conditions.