LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
| BSS | Building the Syrian State |
| Da’ish | al-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fi al-’Iraq wa al-Sham (‘The Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria’) |
| FSA | Free Syrian Army |
| HNC | High Negotiations Council |
| HTS | Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (‘Council for the Liberation of al-Sham’) |
| ICC | International Criminal Court |
| IS | Islamic State |
| ISI | Islamic State in Iraq |
| ISIS | Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (or the Levant) |
| ISSG | International Syria Support Group |
| MOC | Military Operations Centre |
| MOM | Müsterek Operasyon Merkezi (Turkish for Joint Operations Centre) |
| NCC | National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change |
| PKK | Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – [Turkish] Kurdistan Workers Party |
| PYD | Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat – [Syrian] Kurdish Democratic Union Party |
| SNC | Syrian National Council |
| SOC | Syrian Opposition Coalition (National Coalition of the Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces) |
| SSNP | Syrian Social Nationalist Party |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNSC | United Nations Security Council |
| YPG | Yekîneyên Parastina Gel – [Kurdish] People’s Protection Units |