(The Globe And Mail)- It has been nearly two months since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces captured the besieged city of Aleppo, with support from Russia and Iran, wreaking carnage upon the civilian population and thrusting the Syrian crisis back onto the front pages of newspapers....

(Wall Street Journal)- Weeks after he disappeared while fleeing the devastated city of Aleppo, Abdulhadi Kamel of the Syrian civil-defense group White Helmets turned up last month in an online video posted by a Russian-language news agency. His hair and beard disheveled, Mr. Kamel denounced...

(Foreign Policy)- During his first trip to the Pentagon, President Donald Trump gave his generals a month to develop a new plan to defeat the Islamic State. One of the most pressing questions is when and how to take Raqqa, the de facto Islamic State capital in Syria. Left unresolved in the...

(Washington Post)- The documents in the Islamic State file hinted at signs of rebellion within the ranks of its foreign fighters. A Belgian militant had a medical note saying he had back pain and would not join the battle. A fighter from France claimed he wanted to leave Iraq to carry out a...