It’s time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together. The “contract” is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the Arab lands that had been under the rule of the ...

Last week British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said, opens new tabthe struggle against Islamic State was “effectively Iraq’s last chance as nation state.” Sign up here. That somber assessment ...

Why didn't the Israelis go for the less controversial option of sending their assassination squads (Kidon, in Mossad operational parlance) as they have done on several occasions in the past, to take ...

On May 16, 1916, representatives of Great Britain and France signed an agreement that had been negotiated by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot to divide up the Middle East into ...