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Charles Lister is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of the book “The Syrian Jihad.”
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In testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the wake of the U.S. strike on a Syrian government airstrike, Middle East Institute Senior Fellow Charles Lister explores options for the U.S. counter-terrorism policy against ISIS, al-Qaida and Shiite militias in Syria.
Brookings Doha’s Charles Lister examines Syria’s changing battle lines — and momentum.
Charles Lister of Brookings Doha examines Syria’s ongoing stalemate.
“This appears to be an extremely important development,” writes Charles Lister in the Huffington Post.
This post appears courtesy of Charles Lister and Brookings Doha Center. .
A new and dangerous front appears to have opened in Syria. Since early January 3, members of three militant fronts – the largely nationalist Syrian Revolutionaries Front; the moderately Islamist Jaish al-Mujahideen; and the Salafist Islamic Front (IF) – have engaged in sustained clashes with the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford confirmed on Wednesday what many had predicted, that Syria’s Islamic Front (IF) had refused to hold meetings with representatives of the United States.
In a video issued late on September 24, the chief political leader of Liwa al-Tawhid, Abdulaziz Salameh, speaking on behalf of 12 other Islamist militant groups in Syria, condemned the “unrepresentative” Western-backed Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and called explicitly for “an Islamic framework based on sharia [Islamic law].”.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate on September 4 that “bad guys” and “extremists” make up between 15 and 25 percent of the Syrian insurgency. The reality is far more complicated – with enormous significance for the prospect of U.S. military action.
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