A 13-minute montage of insurgents battling regime forces in Daraa, near the Jordanian border — the city was the birthplace of the Syrian uprising in March 2011 and would be central to insurgent control of southern Syria. EA World View

Earlier this week, we noted the assassination of “Al Qa’eda mediator” Abu Khaled al-Suri in an attack on the headquarters of the insurgent faction Ahrar al-Sham in Aleppo. See “Al Qa’eda Mediator” al-Suri Killed by Suicide Bomb Sham News, a Russian-language site...

  Amateur video appears to show the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Idlib as residents scramble to find the living and the dead in Syria. Deborah Lutterbeck reports

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Larry Silverman will temporarily become the United States' point man on Syria with the departure of Robert Ford on Friday, a State Department spokeswoman said. Ford, who became U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2011 and is retiring, was instrumental...