Gunmen kill at least 13 police officers in ambush in Syrian town 

A member of a Syrian government force is deployed amid heightened security in Damascus, March 6, 2025. An ambush late Thursday by gunmen in Jableh, Syria, left more than a dozen security members dead, sources reported.

Gunmen ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town Thursday, leaving at least 13 security members dead and many others wounded, a monitoring group and a local official said.