The 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement has become a cliche: its importance magnified out of all proportion to its effect on events in the Middle East One hundred years ago on May 16 Britain and France signed ...

In the eve of the first World War, the world powers negotiated the future of Ottoman Empire. The allies especially Britain, France and Russia has negotiated the partitioning of the Empire. Mark Sykes ...

May 19 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed by diplomats Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot to help Britain and France divide the lands of the disintegrating ...

The 1916 map, with the signatures of Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot Reaching its centenary amidst a general chorus of vilification around the region, the legacy of the secret Sykes-Picot ...

Monday marks the 100 years since the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret Anglo-French pact reached during the First World War that proposed splitting the Middle East up into zones of ...

The Sykes-Picot map was drawn with a line from Persia to the River Jordan The signing of the Sykes-Picot agreement 100 years ago is marked with regret and bitterness by Arab columnists and social ...

One hundred years ago on May 16 Britain and France signed a secret deal to carve up the carcass of the moribund Ottoman Empire that has since become a byword in the Middle East for imperialist ...

Reaching its centenary amidst a general chorus of vilification around the region, the legacy of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 has never looked more under assault. As Iraq lurches deeper ...