In the Middle East, few men are pilloried these days as much as Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot. Sykes, a British diplomat, travelled the same turf as T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia), served in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Journalist [archival]: Syria is splintering and fragmented further as the long civil war continues, as ...

PARIS, France — On May 16, 1916, a secret pact carved up the floundering Ottoman Empire into spheres of British and French interest, foreshadowing the future map of the Middle East and, say critics, ...

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 ...

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 ...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy recently announced his government would recognize Palestinian statehood if Israel does not agree to a cease-fire with Hamas, stating Britain acted with the "hand ...

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 ...