But let's start with the men the agreement was named after, Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot. James Barr is the author of A Line in the Sand. James Barr: Mark Sykes was a conservative MP and ...

The Iraq-Syria border post histrionically erased by IS was probably several hundred kilometres from the famous "line in the sand" drawn by Sykes and Picot, which ran almost directly from the ...

ISIS even disseminated a 15-minute English-language video entitled “the End of Sykes-Picot” to reinforce the ... that he wanted to draw a straight line stretching from the ‘e’ in Acre ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement launched a nine-year process ... Asquith, in 1915, Sykes famously explained, “I should like to draw a line from the ‘E’ in Acre to the last ‘K’ in Kirkuk.” ...

Sykes and Picot divided Ottoman territories in what ... According to James Barr, author of the book “A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East,” many ...

Named after its negotiators, Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, the secret wartime deal proposed dividing the Middle East between Britain and France, down an extraordinary line.

Sykes-Picot agreement – but what day is the subject of some disagreement. The Encyclopedia Britannica says the agreement dates from May 9, 1916; an on-line legal site asserts that it was signed ...

"I should like to draw a line from the "e" in Acre to the last "k" in Kirkuk." Sykes and Picot were quintessential "empire men". Both were aristocrats, seasoned in colonial administration ...

They are calmly and smartly creating the proper environment that would allow them to establish a state on the ruins of not only Iraq and Syria, but also on the of Sykes-Picot line that rendered ...

Sykes, along with his equally driven French counterpart, the former consul in Beirut, Francois George-Picot, came up with perhaps the most fateful diagonal line ever drawn on a map. According to ...

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