How the Sykes-Picot Agreement Helped Make a Messed-Up Middle East 3 minute read By Ian Bremmer May 18, 2016 5:54 PM EDT ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Sykes-Picot: The Centenary of A Deal That Did Not Shape the Middle East 6 minute read Soldier and politician Sir Mark Sykes, 1879 - 1919. Topical Press Agency/Getty Images ...

Rather than lament Sykes-Picot, let’s recognize it for what it was: a mechanism born in imperial cynicism which nonetheless provided an opportunity for freedom and national aspiration.

Monday marks the 100 years since the signing of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret Anglo-French pact reached during the First World War that proposed splitting the Middle East up into zones of ...