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In the headline of BBC News:

"Who’s fighting whom in Syria?"

Is it correct to use whom instead of who?

This is a specific example of the who/whom question that has been asked in a more general sense elsewhere. Every time somebody asks about who/whom does not mean it is a duplicate!

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    This seems to have been answered here. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/56/what-s-the-rule-for-using-who-and-whom-correctly – Graham Nicol Oct 07 '15 at 15:57

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It is technically incorrect, though most people will let it slide enough for this to safely be ignored a good chunk of the time unless somebody's being a pedant. Languages evolve, too. I almost never use "whom" myself.

"Whom" isn't common in casual speech.

Often in non-formal speech who doubles as an object pronoun.

Nihilist_Frost
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  • 'It is incorrect' is incorrect nowadays. Acceptability has evolved. Read Professor Lawler's post at the duplicate. – Edwin Ashworth Oct 07 '15 at 16:03
  • I don't do "correct", which I regard as a judgment about fashion, not language. But those who use whom at all will normally use it there - and they are often the kind of people who believe in "correct". In what sense do you claim that it is incorrect? – Colin Fine Oct 07 '15 at 17:42
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    Technically. I would usually not use whom at all.

    This issue doesn't really have an absolute answer.

     – Nihilist_Frost Oct 07 '15 at 17:44