DAMASCUS, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli drone strike targeted a Syrian military position in the southern countryside of Damascus on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers and wounding several others, according to local and monitoring group reports.
Syria's Lebanon-based Sham TV television reported that three Syrian military personnel were killed and four others injured when an Israeli drone strike hit a military site in the town of al-Kiswah, southwest of Damascus.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a slightly different account, saying two military personnel from the 44th Division, including a commander, were killed, and six others wounded, two of them critically.
Earlier in the day, the monitor reported that an Israeli strike killed a young man when his house was hit in the village of Tarneja in Quneitra province, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. It was not immediately clear whether that strike was carried out by a drone or a missile, and the reasons for the targeting remain unknown.
The development comes amid reports of Israeli incursions into southern Syrian areas, amid condemnation from the Syrian interim authorities. ■
