Six Syrian troopers had been killed in Israeli drone strikes within the Damascus countryside, state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported early on Wednesday.
A Syrian protection ministry official, who earlier put the dying toll at three, instructed AFP on situation of anonymity that “an Israeli drone focused one of many army buildings of the forty fourth division of the Syrian military in Kiswah, west of Damascus.”
There was no quick assertion from the Israel Protection Forces.
Syria and Israel are engaged in US-mediated talks on easing tensions in southern Syria, with Damascus looking for a safety deal that might open the door to wider political negotiations.
On Tuesday, the official SANA information company reported that “a younger man was killed in an Israeli strike on a house within the village of Taranja,” on the previously Syria-controlled aspect of the armistice line on the Golan Heights.
Syria condemned “the current Israeli assaults on its territory, which resulted within the martyrdom of a younger man,” the international ministry mentioned.
It additionally condemned what it mentioned was an incursion on Monday by the IDF forces right into a city within the Quneitra countryside, their “arrest campaigns towards civilians,” and their “announcement of the continuation of their unlawful presence on the summit of Mount Hermon and the buffer zone.”
“These aggressive practices represent a flagrant violation of the UN Constitution, worldwide legislation, and related Safety Council resolutions, and represent a direct risk to peace and safety within the area.”
The IDF has been deployed to 9 posts inside southern Syria because the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, principally inside a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the nations.
Troops have been working in areas as much as round 15 kilometers (some 9 miles) deep into Syria, together with Beit Jinn, aiming to seize weapons that Israel says may pose a risk to the nation in the event that they fall into the palms of “hostile forces,” as Iranian-backed teams did throughout Assad’s rule.
It distrusts Syria’s new authorities, which is led by former jihadists.
Amid the continued US-mediated talks between Jerusalem and Damascus, Protection Minister Israel Katz vowed Tuesday that IDF troops would stay in Syria to defend the north, saying Israel’s want to take care of a presence there’s a “central lesson from the occasions of October 7.”
