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 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 ...

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FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Exactly 100 years to the day after the Sykes-Picot agreement was signed, Soldiers gathered in Marshall Auditorium, May 16, to hear scholars explain how this agreement shaped the ...

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 ...

A convention known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement was signed on May 19, 1916. It was an arrangement which led to the division of the Ottoman Empire - negotiated between Sir Mark Sykes of Britain and ...

The stunning victories by Islamic militants in northern Iraq have drawn attention to a militant group whose goal is an Islamic state encompassing parts of Iraq, Syria and other countries of the ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret treaty between the British and French to redraw Middle Eastern borders after World War I. As the Middle East continues to ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Lawrence in Arabia author Scott Anderson about the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret pact signed among allied nations that shaped the geography of the Middle East following ...

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 ...

The 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement comes on May 19, marking a century that helped shaped the Middle East May 19 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed by ...