Stabilizing Eastern Syria After Isis

The U.S.-led international coalition to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made progress over the past several years, but the counter-ISIS campaign is not over. The authors assessed humanitarian needs in Eastern Syria''s Middle Euphrates River Valley and examined how locally focused stabilization might be orchestrated to help preclude the Islamic State''s recapture of territory, even as Syria''s larger civil conflict continues.