Cairo - The Arab League (AL) will send 10 more observers to Syria to join an AL team monitoring the situation there, Adnan al-Khodair, head of the pan-Arab body's monitoring operations room in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, said Tuesday, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.

The 10 observers are from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Somalia, Khodair said.

Currently, the AL has 155 observers in Syria, after 10 left for their countries on private businesses. Khodair stressed that their withdrawal is totally for personal reasons.

He added that the Syria mission mandate will be extended for three days until Jan 22, when the Arab foreign ministers will convene to review a report to be submitted by head of the Arab observer mission Moustafa al-Dabi.

Syria signed the AL observer protocol on Dec 19, 2011 in Cairo after the AL threatened to take the issue to the United Nations Security Council.

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