Not too long ago, the know-it-all set was unanimous in its view that Sykes-Picot was dead. The demise of the Middle East’s state system was beyond question. Libya did not survive Barack Obama ...

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Scroll down for video The bulk of the video - which is titled 'The End of Sykes-Picot' - features Abu Saffiya, an apparent ISIS militant who claims he comes from Chile and speaks in perfect ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, based on al-Faruqi’s distorted claims, was finally signed in May 1916. Thus, of the three documents most profoundly influencing the establishment of the Modern ...

The panel defended the borders created by the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, imposed following World War I. The Kurdish representative to the U.S., Bayan Abdul Rahman, pointed out that the current ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement (and it was only an agreement) was negotiated between the French diplomat François Georges-Picot and his British counterpart Sir Mark Sykes between 1915 and 1916.

A good example of this is the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement and the subsequent Balfour Declaration, which set the scene for the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict all the way back in 1916 and ...