Israel has launched frequent strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime [Getty]
Three Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli drone strike near the capital Damascus, while two more were killed when a landmine left behind during the country’s 14 year civil war exploded.
Sources told The New Arab’s sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that three soldiers were killed this afternoon, and four others were wounded, after an Israeli drone targeted their patrol in the Harjalah area near al-Kiswah south of Damascus.
The drone carried out at least four strikes on a tank training facility, amid heavy reconnaissance flights by Israeli aircraft over Damascus.
Sources also said that a landmine left behind during the Syrian conflict exploded a a military site belonging to the Special Forces in the al-Dreij area west of Damascus. The explosion killed two soldiers, including a military trainer, and injured three others, some of whom in critical condition.
Israeli drones also carried out several strikes on Tuesday afternoon on former positions of the deposed Assad regime’s notorious Fourth Division in the mountains near Moadamiya west of Damascus, though there were no details about casualties.
Since the early hours of Tuesday, Israeli drones have been flying extensively over the skies of the Syrian capital, coinciding with an incursion by Israeli occupation forces into the Beit Jinn area, about 50 kilometres from Damascus.
Earlier in the day, a young Syrian man was killed during an Israeli incursion into the village of Taranga in the Quneitra countryside, southern Syria.
The official Syrian news agency (SANA) reported that he was killed after an Israeli strike targeted a house in the village.