Ottoman Empire

War creates cultural collisions. In Si Sheppard’s militaristic comparison and contrast of Ottoman soldiers and those of Australia and New Zealand, the cultural divisions are easy to notice even before ...

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While mapping the floor of the Black Sea, researchers discovered dozens of long lost wrecked ships, with some ...

Ever since Islamic State (ISIS) spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani announced the establishment of a caliphate on June 29, ...

In 1915–1916, Sir Mark Sykes, of the British War Office, and François Georges-Picot, French consul in Beirut, negotiated ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East.

The Sykes-Picot accord was conceived at a high point in Britain and France's imperial power. Hammered out in ...