All Policy Analysis by Andrew J. Tabler

Last week's massacre in the Syrian village of al-Houla, in which more than 100 civilians lost their lives, has called into question the conventional wisdom in Washington that intervention would make things worse on the ground. President Bashar al-Assad's disregard for the U.N. deadlines in early April to withdraw forces

Damascus may be exaggerating the strength of the Syrian jihadi group Jabhat al-Nusra.