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OTAIBA, Syria — Search teams on Friday pulled some 25 bodies out of a mass grave believed to contain the remains of at least 175 people in a suburb of the capital, Damascus.

Officials said the bodies found in an agricultural field in the suburb of Otaiba belonged to people who had been killed in an ambush by the forces of then-Syrian President Bashar Assad. They were fleeing the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta, which was under the control of opposition forces.

It was the latest grim remnant to surface from the country’s nearly 14-year civil war that ended with Assad’s ouster in a lightning rebel offensive in December.

Family members with missing loved ones came to the site in

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