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 ...

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 ...

Many historians misunderstand Sykes–Picot, the treaty that carved up the Middle East, as a random act of colonial mapmaking. In fact, the secret World War I agreement between France and the United ...

Vashti Kenway provides the history of the imperial powers' construction and destruction of the Middle East, in an article published by the Australian newspaper Red Flag. "I SHOULD like to draw a line ...

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 ...

Last week British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said, opens new tabthe struggle against Islamic State was “effectively Iraq’s last chance as nation state.” Sign up here. That somber assessment ...

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 ...

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 ...