Can the Idlib Memorandum Freeze the Conflict?

... Syria”? Ruslan Mamedov: The Fate of Idlib. Is It Important for Russia? Ankara has consistently advocated for the preservation ... ... opposition-controlled de-escalation zone, and it was the efforts of Turkey, and of Erdogan personally, that averted the military threat ... ... consistently works to undermine the standing of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that in early 2017 subsumed Jabhat al-Nusra (Jabhat Fatah ... ... its positions in Idlib. After moderate groups assembled in the National Front for Liberation, these factions gained even greater ...