Beirut: Activists say at least four soldiers have been killed and 12 others wounded in southern Syria in an ambush carried out by a group of military defectors.
The British Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group says the ambush targeted a joint military and security convoy on the road between the villages of Khirbet Ghazaleh and Dael, in Daraa province.
Thousands of army defectors in Syria have grown increasingly bolder in attacking government forces. Wednesday's ambush comes as Arab League observers began a second day of work touring districts in the flashpoint central city of Homs.
The observers are also expected to visit Daraa and other trouble spots under an agreement to monitor Syria's compliance with a plan to end the country's nearly 10-month-long crisis.