On January 11, “moderate opposition” groups of the Free Syrian Army
(FSA) released an official statement announcing a large
counter-offensive against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies in
the Abu al-Duhur area in southern Idlib where the “regime forces” were
battling their allied terrorist group – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly
Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda).
A large-scale operation launched by the so-called “moderate opposition”
in support of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham shows that the de-escalation zone
de-facto collapsed.