Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monday marks the 100 years since the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret Anglo-French pact reached during the First ...

Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington ...

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 ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, we’ve got a package with an explanatory article about the secret accord, an argument that its influence is overstated (below), and the ...

Sykes-Picot was a blessing for many in the Middle East. May 16 marks the 100 th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret deal which divided up the heart of the Middle East (and would have ...

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 ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret accord between Britain and France, with the assent of Russia, to dismember the Ottoman Empire in the event of its defeat in World War I. It foresaw granting the ...

The focus on the century-old accord is a product of bad history and shoddy social science—and it’s surely not the cause of the region’s dysfunction. Members of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, one of the most fateful pacts in modern history, was signed 100 years ago on May 16, 1916. It is not an anniversary to be celebrated. An agreement made between Great Britain ...

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