The Global Conflicts to Watch in 2016

Center for Preventive Action / Council on Foreign Relations

Concerns about the Middle East, and especially Syria, have displaced other threats.

In the summer of 2012—around the time that the Islamic State’s inchoate plans for a caliphate merited a mere footnote in a U.S. congressional report on the year-old Syrian conflict—Robert Satloff argued that a civil war was taking shape in Syria, and that its terrible consequences would extend far beyond Syrians; Americans, too, would soon be acquainted with the horror.

Source: The Atlantic