Sykes-Picot

Under a secret wartime French-British deal, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, the province was divided on a line running from Mount Hermon due west to the sea.

Israpundit 2009

1 Known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed in 1916.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Going back a century or so, the impact of colonial domination and imperial manipulation Sykes-Picot, Balfour, etc has taken a toll.

James Zogby: Reflections on Tunisia James Zogby 2011

In mid-February 2003, a month before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, bin Laden railed on an audiotape posted to jihadist websites against “a new Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Bush-Blair axis.”

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Makdisi fails to realize that without Sykes-Picot, Palestine would have never come into existence.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Review: 'Faith Misplaced' by Ussama Makdisi Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2011

The SSNP wanted to establish Greater Syria, doing away with the artificial borders of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Sami Moubayed: The Road to Syrian Democracy Sami Moubayed 2011

For bin Laden, the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret plan to carve up the disintegrating Ottoman Empire between the French and British, has the same resonance that the 1919 Treaty of Versailles did for Hitler.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

For bin Laden, the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret plan to carve up the disintegrating Ottoman Empire between the French and British, has the same resonance that the 1919 Treaty of Versailles did for Hitler.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

In mid-February 2003, a month before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, bin Laden railed on an audiotape posted to jihadist websites against “a new Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Bush-Blair axis.”

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Libya itself gained its independence from Italy in 1951, but the Sykes-Picot agreement between the French and British in 1916 created nearly everything else.

Kevin Bunkley: Dabbling in the Arab World Kevin Bunkley 2011