The integration of the Kurdish administration within Syria’s state institutions is now complete, Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi said on Thursday, marking the end of the Kurds’ long-held dream of autonomy. The announcement follows months of negotiations between the two sides after a January agreement that called for the full integration of Kurdish civil and military institutions into the state — a move Washington deemed “historic”. FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor Andrew Hilliar tells us more.