'The Kurds had Western support, especially from the US. That support has now been withdrawn.'

COLUMN. The agreement signed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa brings an end to the experiment of Rojava, an autonomous region in the country's Northeast. The United States gave its approval for dismantling this Kurdish stronghold and its military wing, both of which it had previously protected, explains Alain Frachon in his column for Le Monde.