Report: Syrian army kills 62 rebels east of Damascus

Sixty-two rebel fighters were killed in a Syrian army ambush at dawn on Wednesday near the town of Adra, east of Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group opposed to President Bashar Assad.

The state news agency SANA did not give a death toll for the ambush but said the rebels were from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front. It said all the rebels were killed and machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades were confiscated. (Reuters)