The Middle East's persistent conflicts stem beyond oil, power struggles, and Shia-Sunni divides, tracing back to the Ottoman ...

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the document that shaped the modern Middle East. Known officially as the Asia Minor Agreement, it was authored by the British ...

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 ...

Map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, regarding the apportionment of postwar spheres of interest in the Ottoman Empire to Britain, France and Russia. Credit - Pictures From History/Universal Images Group ...

Five centuries ago, the contours of the modern Middle East were shaped through a series of Ottoman battles. The outcomes of these battles—which shaped the region’s politics, demographics and religious ...

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 ...