Likely Courses of Action in the Syrian Civil War: June - December 2015
June 12, 2015 - Jennifer Cafarella![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/SYR%20MLCOA-01_2.png?itok=WPZeXyjq)
The purpose of this intelligence forecast is to outline ISW’s assessment of the courses of action available to Syrian actors and their principal benefactors over the next six months. ISW assesses that the dynamic stalemate that has defined the Syrian civil war since 2013 may be broken in this timeframe. The expansion of ISIS’s maneuver campaign into Syria’s central corridor is one potential inflection that could change the course of the war by shattering the Assad regime’s area defense strategy in western Syria.