Not only that, those Christians are among the oldest Christian communities on earth.... until, until around 2003 and it did get a lot worse with the coming of ISIS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guess-who-got-the-key-to-detroit/Saddam gave so much money to a Christian church in Detroit, he got the key to the city.
That area is just too loaded to mess with, we see how the Saudis, Turks, Egyptians, Syrians act, kill or be killed. In a sense, I think one can look at most of the conflicts over there and then figure, depending on how you look at it, every side is right in those wars, perhaps all wars are that way.
With the exception of what happens in Israel.
We need to be very careful with our interventions, we haven't really intervened too much with Trump, the Yemen war was already ongoing, but we do need to look at that one too....Senator Rand Paul is correct, to at least, scrutinize the situation.