Syrian police have imposed an overnight curfew in the city of Homs, state media reports, after unrest there is linked to demonstrations that residents say were led by members of the minority Alawite and Shi’ite Muslim religious communities.

Syrian police have imposed an overnight curfew in the city of Homs, state media reported, after unrest there linked to demonstrations that residents said were led by members of the minority Alawite and Shi’ite Muslim religious communities.

Fourteen Syrian police officers were killed in an ambush by forces loyal to the ousted Assad regime in the Tartous countryside, the country’s transitional administration announced Thursday. The attack,