The Syrian regime’s defence ministry on Friday said eight soldiers had been injured in Israeli airstrikes near Damascus. On Thursday night, “the Israeli enemy launched airstrikes from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a site near Damascus… injuring eight soldiers”, the ministry said in a statement. Israel rarely comments on individual strikes but has repeatedly said it will not allow its arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Israel had struck a government building in the Damascus countryside that has been u…