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One hundred years ago on May 16 Britain and France signed a secret deal to carve up the carcass of the moribund Ottoman Empire that has since become a byword in the Middle East for imperialist ...

The 1916 map, with the signatures of Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot Reaching its centenary amidst a general chorus of vilification around the region, the legacy of the secret Sykes-Picot ...

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. By Mark Landler Reporting from ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Lawrence in Arabia author Scott Anderson about the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret pact signed among allied nations that shaped the geography of the Middle East following ...