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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 ...

John Kasich delivers a statement about foreign policy and other issues in Queens, NY in which he explains his plan to defeat ISIS: Have a NATO "extended" into working on "intelligence gathering and ...

Map of the Sykes–Picot Agreement signed by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, May 8, 1916 (U.K. National Archives image). This month marks the centenary of the Sykes-Picot treaty, a French-English ...

Just as hysteria about the demise of Sykes-Picot was starting to die down, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has revived it by declaring its intention to revive the caliphate at least over ...

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 ...

The rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) raises the possibility that the days are numbered for the map of the Middle East as we know it. ISIS has stated that it wishes to erase the Sykes ...

With a massive invasion by U.S. ground troops ruled out — for now — the debate in Washington over what to do about Islamic State militants has shifted into the realm of diplomacy and “soft power.” ...

Sykes-Picot is dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by France and Britain after 1919, when each imposed governments in Syria and Lebanon, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...