The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret treaty Britain and France signed more than a century ago. Many consider it to have seeded a legacy of strife in the Middle East.

A map, seen above, initialed by Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, shows a broad sweep of the then-crumbling Ottoman Empire carved between French and British spheres of influence.

Iresha Picot is many things: A licensed behavioral therapist. An organizer. A writer. A Black woman originally from Virginia. But in Philadelphia, where she’s lived the last decade and a half, she’s ...

Reaching its centenary amidst a general chorus of vilification around the Middle East, the legacy of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 has never looked more under assault, says Jim Muir.

Many historians misunderstand Sykes–Picot, the treaty that carved up the Middle East, as a random act of colonial mapmaking. In fact, the secret World War I agreement between France and the United ...

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 ...

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In May 1916, Mark Sykes, a British diplomat, and François Georges-Picot, his French counterpart, drew up an agreement to ensure that once the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I, their ...