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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The signing of the Sykes-Picot agreement 100 years ago is marked with regret and bitterness by Arab columnists and social media users. Some commentators believe that the "same type of conspiracy" that ...