Take the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Syria, for instance: these two countries were literally drawn into existence by the schemingly victorious British and French: first, by secret agreement in 1916 (Sykes-Picot); then publicly, through the agency of the Versailles Treaty of..…
It also alarmed British and French, Jordan, and Iraq. Eisenhower opposed the 1956 tripartite invasion of Egypt by Britain, Israel, and France, seeing it and the crisis did not improve American with Nasser.. ..…
TEHRAN (FNA)- New batches of American, French and British troops on Tuesday withdrew from areas in al-Jazeera region in Syria towards Iraq. . . ..…
TEHRAN (FNA)- New batches of American, French and British troops on Tuesday withdrew from areas in al-Jazeera region in Syria towards Iraq. . Official news agency SANA reported that 40 US, French and British military servicemen on Tuesday evening pulled out from..…
But the two great powers of the day, Britain and France, reneged in 1923 and carved up the Kurdish territories into modern-day Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. The Kurds rebelled against this betrayal and were crushed by their new British, French, Iranian, and Turkish colonizers. ..…
Chirac blasted British food and clashed with Britain and America over Iraq . . Angry Americans poured Bordeaux wine into the gutter and restaurants renamed French fries 'freedom fries' in retaliation. . ..…
The unprecedented attack knocked out more or five percent of global supply, prompting Saudi and US officials to claim, without any evidence, that it probably originated from Iraq or Iran.. In joint statement, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and..…
Chirac was office when Merkel came to in 2005 and was the first of four French presidents she has worked with.. Chirac's British Tony Blair who was on the other side of the divide on Iraq War offered gushing praise of the ex- French character. ..…
The French took the Lebanon and Syrian mandates, and each of them became countries in 1943 and 1946, respectively, after the last of the French troops withdrew. The British took the Palestine and Iraq mandates. Iraq declared its independence in 1932. ..…
The imperialistic Sykes-Picot Agreement led to the creation of Iraq. According to Sykes-Picot, the British would get Baghdad and Basra, while the French would get Mosul in the North. ... In this way, the British took control of the entire territory that is now..…
It noted that the US spy agency has interrogated 2,000 ISIL terrorists in special centers that the US has set up in the camps controlled by the Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq before giving new passports and documents to them. . This is while French, Israeli and British inspectors..…
There were mass strikes in Glasgow and Belfast, and the British and French armies mutinied. . Anti-colonial revolts erupted across the world including in Iraq, Ireland, India, Egypt, Syria, Morocco and across the Russian empire. . ..…
Political rights to self-determination for Arabs were guaranteed by the League of Nations in the French Mandate, which included Syria and Lebanon and another British Mandate over Iraq. ..…
Billions of dollars worth of raw materials, machinery and equipment, missile technology and other “dual-use” items were also supplied by West German, French, Italian, British, Swiss and Austrian corporations, with the approval of their governments (German firms even sold Iraq..…
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Gulf states emerged out of the wreckage of Ottoman Empire and British- French line-drawing. ..…
In 1932, Iraq became a free state – the only mandate that achieved its independence before WWII. The French administration was challenged in Morocco in 1925–1926, in Syria in 1925–1930, in Congo in 1928–1931 and in Indochina in 1930–1931. . ..…
n Arab in Hejaz influenced the creation of several of Arab states in the today, including Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia. By forcing their way up the, campaign by British and French to decapitate Ottoman empire Dardanelles saw the allies and Ottomans lose over men. ..…
It cannot get the world behind Iran attack or as it got some of its closest allies behind Iraq War in 2003, or got UNSC behind the savage destruction of Libya in 2011, or got French and British forces to help U.S help al-Qaeda-aligned opposition forces Syria since 2011. ..…
Prior to the combat in Madagascar and French North Africa, anti-British sentiment in Iraq was high. ..…
The bourgeois regime rationalizes its bloody course under the banner of rectifying the oppression of Shiites Iraq and across Arab, oppression manipulated and amplified by more than century of French, British and U.S imperialist domination.. ..…
Britain and France broke up the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War i, exerting influence and control by refashioning the region more to their advantage and by creating new nations such as Syria and Iraq. After World War ii, the British and French were too economically drained to..…
Millions of Kurds Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria and British-French of the region left them without state of their own, adding to the region's tensions. ..…
He participated in the murder of thousands of people in British Mandate of Palestine, British-occupied Iraq, French-occupied Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Libya.. ..…
Of course the tops of the army represent the interests of the ruling classes, and, as we have seen Egypt, the ordinary soldiers and lower ranking officers are much closer to the working people and in face of upsurge can go over to the revolution. ..…
With the Empire still underdeveloped and its satellites picked off by its creditors, the British invasion took Mesopotamia (Iraq), Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, and the Sykes-Picoult agreement divided these former holdings between the French and British Empires. ..…
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