Native sources report an Israeli operation in Kiswa, the place six troopers have been killed by Israeli drones strikes a day earlier than.
Revealed On 27 Aug 2025
Israeli forces have performed a sequence of strikes on a former military barracks in Kiswa, southwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus, based on Syria’s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.
Video verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking company confirmed Israeli plane attacking websites within the village on Wednesday.
In the meantime, a Syrian army supply advised Al Jazeera that the Israeli military carried out a touchdown operation within the barracks with using 4 helicopters.
In response to the supply, the Israeli military introduced in dozens of troopers and an unspecified quantity of search tools because it spent greater than two hours on the website.
No clashes happened between the Israeli forces concerned within the touchdown and the Syrian military forces.
The operation got here a day after an Israeli drone strike killed six troopers close to Kiswa, and as Syrian officers within the authorities of interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa have more and more accused Israel of seeking to expand its management within the area.
In a press release on Wednesday, Syria’s Ministry of International Affairs known as the strike “a gross violation of worldwide legislation and the United Nations Constitution”.
It added that the assault represented “a transparent breach of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic”.
Israel has launched a whole lot of strikes focusing on army websites and belongings throughout Syria because the fall of former chief Bashar al-Assad in December. It has additionally expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarised buffer zone, a transfer that violated a 1974 disengagement settlement with Syria.
On Monday, Syria’s International Ministry mentioned that Israel had despatched 60 troopers to take management of an space contained in the Syrian border round Mount Hermon, close to a strategic hilltop near the border with Lebanon.
Syrian Minister of International Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani decried the “army incursion” as a part of an effort by Israel to advance its “expansionist and partition plans”.
The most recent Israel operations observe lethal clashes within the Druze-majority Syrian province of Suwayda, the place 1,400 individuals have been killed in per week of sectarian violence in July.
Israel has since attacked Syrian troops and bombed the heart of the capital, Damascus, beneath the pretext of defending the Druze individuals.
