Iraq/Syria: How Sykes-Picot Is the Root of Syria, Iraq Sectarian Conflicts

May 13, 2016 | teleSUR
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Days after taking over the second largest city in Iraq Mosul, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said “this blessed advance will not stop until we hit the last nail in the coffin of the Sykes-Picot conspiracy,” as he played at a longstanding negative sentiment that Arabs had against an imperial agreement that divided up the Ottoman territories among British and French colonial rule.