Max Fisher is the foreign affairs blogger at the Washington Post. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/max-fisher/rss en Government & Pro-Government Forces ISIS Opposition Groups & Rebel Forces Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Max Fisher https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/09/02/9-questions-about-syria-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/09/02/9-questions-about-syria-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians.