Arab League suspends Syria mission amid violence An opposition group says as many as 34 people are killed in Syria Russia's foreign minister says he would support more Arab observers The Arab League suspended its mission because of violence Some monitors will leave the country, an Arab League official says (CNN) -- As many as 34 people were killed in Syria Sunday, according to an opposition activist group, as the Arab League suspended a monitoring mission designed to protect Syrian civilians from government-sponsored violence. The Syrian Revolution General Council said the dead Sunday included a person who had been killed under torture, a woman, and two children. Another opposition group, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, put the number of dead at 29, saying that government troops were out in force in locations including Aleppo University and the suburbs of the capital Damascus. Twelve people were killed in the Damascus countryside, the group said, along with six in Homs, four in Hama, three in both Idlib and Daraa and one in Damascus. The reported deaths come a day after opposition sources said at least 98 people were killed. CNN cannot independently confirm reports from Syria because the government limits the activity of journalists there. Ali Erfan, senior advisor to Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Araby, said Sunday that observer activity in Syria has been suspended, and all observers who were outside Damascus have redeployed to the capital. Some will leave the country, he said. Others will stay on for the moment in Damascus, but they will not be conducting any missions, he said, adding that he did not have details on how many are leaving and how many are staying. Russia's foreign minister said earlier Sunday he is in favor of boosting the number of observers in Syria, adding that he did not understand why the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission. Monitors representing the 22-nation alliance were in Syria to determine whether President Bashar al-Assad's government is abiding by an agreement with the Arab League to end violence against anti-government protesters. There were reports Sunday of violent clashes between Syrian troops and rebel forces, made up primarily of military defectors, in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based opposition group. Three people were killed in the violence, the group said. At least 10 Syrian troops were killed when a roadside bomb targeted a military vehicle in the mountains in the northwest province of Idlib, the Observatory group said. A rebel soldier was killed in clashes between the towns of Bloludan and Zabadani, the group said. A roadside bomb targeted a bus carrying Syrian troops in a Damascus suburb, killing six soldiers and wounding six others, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Sunday. Al-Assad's government has been under international pressure to stop a brutal, months-long crackdown on an anti-government uprising that began last year. The United Nations last month estimated that more than 5,000 people have died since March, when the government launched a crackdown against demonstrators. Russia, which maintains trade relations with Syria, has proposed its own draft U.N. resolution that assigns equal blame for the violence on both al-Assad and the opposition, an option dismissed by the West. ET on Sunday. Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Ja'afari, has dismissed the proposed resolution. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report.