Emily Burchfield is a program assistant at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/emily-burchfield/rss en ISIS Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:20:00 +0000 Emily Burchfield https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2018/04/04/analysis-washington-still-has-work-to-do-in-former-isis-territories https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2018/04/04/analysis-washington-still-has-work-to-do-in-former-isis-territories Before the U.S. pulls out of Syria, Washington needs to address a governance gap left in some former ISIS territories. Otherwise, marginalized Arab communities will likely ally with the Syrian government or extremist forces, writes Emily Burchfield of the Atlantic Council.