Iranian Guards commander killed in Syria

Syria, where Assad’s Alawite minority is an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam and the majority of the population is Sunni, has become a proxy battleground for a regional confrontation between non-Arab Iran and Sunni-ruled Arab powers, such as Saudi Arabia. So poor Syria is just a PROXY for the Iranians and the Saudis?? Unbelievable but hey not too long ago, Christians, were kind of doing the same thing, the Spanish Inquisition etc...right??