The Syrian soldiers killed by Al Qaeda in Iraq, reflected the hardened sectarian animus spreading from the Syrian conflict, in which insurgents from the Sunni majority are battling to topple Mr. Assad and his Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/world/middleeast/islamic-state-of-iraq-says-it-killed-syrian-soldiers.html?ref=world&_r=0 Syria’s grand mufti referred to insurgents as ” a conspiracy of foreign enemies, […]