Barbara A. Leaf: “It's a recipe for chronic instability and insecurity across a widening arc of territory that is home to nearly 70…”

President Biden has articulated a forward-looking approach to the region based on five elements: partnership, deterrence, diplomacy, regional integration, and values.

We believe that pursuing the following priorities: defeating ISIS and al Qa'ida; increasing access to humanitarian aid; keeping violence down by maintaining ceasefires; and promoting accountability for the Assad regime's atrocities are…

We are going to go for broke. We are going to try to get a larger extension of that and see if we can get other border points open as well.

Let me be frank with you. After more than a decade of conflict, prospects remain limited for advancing a political solution worthy of Syrians who bravely demanded change more than 10 years ago.