Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since an Islamist-led alliance toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December.
It has also opened talks with the interim authorities in Damascus.
In a statement, Syria's foreign ministry called the strike "a gross violation of international law and the United Nations Charter".
It added that the attack represented "a clear breach of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic".
State television reported six army personnel "were killed in strikes by Israeli occupation drones" near Kisweh, outside Damascus in the Tuesday attack.
A defence ministry official had previously told AFP on condition of anonymity that an Israeli drone targeted "one of the military buildings of the 44th Division".
The Israeli military did not respond to an AFP request for comment.
Earlier Tuesday, state news agency SANA reported that "a young man was killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the village of Taranja", on the formerly Syria-controlled side of the armistice line on the Golan Heights.
Since Assad's overthrow, Israel has occupied much of a UN-patrolled demilitarised zone on the formerly Syria-controlled side of the armistice line.
Lebanon says Israeli drone explodes after crash, killing two soldiers
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 -
Lebanon's army said two personnel were killed Thursday after an Israeli drone that had crashed in the country's south exploded, the latest deadly incident for Lebanese troops near the Israeli border.
Under a November ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of open war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon's army has been deploying in the country's south and dismantling the Iran-backed group's infrastructure there with the support of UN peacekeepers.
"While army personnel were inspecting an Israeli enemy drone after it fell in the Naqura area, it exploded, leading to the death of an officer and a soldier and wounding two other personnel," the army said in a statement.
President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that "the army is once again paying in blood the price of maintaining stability in the south."
He said it was the fourth deadly incident for the army since it began deploying in south Lebanon after the ceasefire.
Earlier this month, six Lebanese soldiers were killed in a blast at a weapons depot near the border that a military source said belonged to Hezbollah.
Aoun noted Thursday's incident coincided with the United Nations Security Council's extension of the UN peacekeeping force's mandate ahead of its withdrawal at the end of 2027.
It also coincided with "the international community's call for Israel to halt its attacks, withdraw... and enable the Lebanese army to complete the extension of its authority up to the international border", the presidency statement said.
Under the US-brokered ceasefire, Hezbollah and Israel were both required to withdraw from south Lebanon, but Israel has kept troops in several areas it deems strategic.
Reacting to Thursday's incident, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam expressed his condolences and the government's "full solidarity with the military institution".
He said the army was Lebanon's "safety valve, the stronghold of sovereignty and the support of national unity".
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