Frederic C. Hof is director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. He advised Hillary Clinton on Syria at the State Department in 2012. Some 70 months ago, unarmed, ordinary Syrians rose peacefully against a regime whose incompetence and corruption they had come...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 army officers from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed since the beginning of December in Palmyra and Aleppo battlefields, source in the military police told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 9 senior officers as many fellows still missing, source...

(New York Times)- For months, the bodies have been piling up in eastern Aleppo as the buildings have come down, pulverized by Syrian and Russian jets, burying residents who could not flee in avalanches of bricks and mortar. And now it is almost over, not because diplomats reached a deal in...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asked Syria's warring parties to quickly agree on a plan to evacuate people from east Aleppo and provide "solid" safety guarantees of Saturday, a day after the evacuation stalled Friday. "We're ready to resume facilitating the evacuation...