Amid developments on ground, Austria said Thursday it will withdraw troops from the UN peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights, after the Syrian terrorists briefly seized control over the Quneitra crossing earlier in the day.

Amid developments on ground, Austria said Thursday it will withdraw troops from the UN peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights, after the Syrian terrorists briefly seized control over the Quneitra crossing earlier in the day.

"In light of this, the defense minister said that the Austrian army's participation in the UNDOF mission can no longer be maintained for military reasons," Chancellor Werner Faymann and Vice-Chancellor Michael Spindelegger said in a joint statement.

"Freedom of movement in the area no longer exists.

"The threat to Austrian soldiers has reached an unacceptable level. The events of this morning show that it is no longer justifiable to wait and see," they added.

Austria has been part of the UN mission in the Golan Heights since 1974 and is currently one of the biggest contributors there, with some 380 troops.

Other contributors to the 1,000-strong mission include the Philipines, India, Morocco and Moldova.

Terrorist takfirist fighting troops loyal to Syrian government on Thursday seized the only crossing along the on the Zionist entity-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights, before regime forces recaptured it.

In Manila, the Filipino military said one of its peacekeepers in UNDOF was wounded in the leg by shrapnel on Thursday.