Syria contributor: Barak Barfi and Aaron Y. Zelin Barak Barfi is a research fellow at the New America Foundation. Aaron Y. Zelin is the Richard Borow fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College London. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/barak-barfi-and-aaron-y-zelin/rss en Al Qaeda’s Syrian Strategy ISIS Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Barak Barfi and Aaron Y. Zelin https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/10/15/al-qaedas-syrian-strategy https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/10/15/al-qaedas-syrian-strategy Al Qaeda is storming across northern Syria. Last month, the al Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) captured the city of al-Bab in the northern province of Aleppo from a rival rebel militia.