Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An ambush in Syria by suspected loyalists to deposed President Bashar al- Assad killed as many as 20 members of Syria's new security force in the west of the country Thursday, officials said. The security forces, consisting mostly of former opposition rebels, had been fighting with remaining Assad supporters in western Syria, trying to take into custody former government officials. Advertisement Mohammed Abel Rahman, the interior minister for the new government, promised that