Charles Lister is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar.Will McCants is director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/charles-lister-and-william-mccants/rss en Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Government & Pro-Government Forces Opposition Groups & Rebel Forces Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Charles Lister and William McCants https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2014/02/19/the-syrian-civil-war-political-and-military-state-of-play https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2014/02/19/the-syrian-civil-war-political-and-military-state-of-play