Charles M. Sennott

VIDEO: The Borders Of The Middle East Are Being Redrawn By Force

ISIS is trying to change the map created after World War I. America’s Kurdish allies have a different outcome in mind.

Charles M. Sennott
By Charles M. Sennott
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KHANAQIN, Iraq — A wind-swept hilltop of parched, brown earth provided as good a vantage point as any to watch Iraq coming apart. A skirmish here in early October along the front line between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State, with Iraqi army troops absent from the mix, offered a glimpse of a national fracturing along the lines of the three

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How ISIS Is Tearing Up The Century-old Map Of The Middle East

As it captures key Iraqi territory, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is undoing the WWI-era Sykes-Picot Agreement.

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By Charles M. Sennott
Mideast Syria Lines in Sand Analysis

PARIS — Nearly 100 years ago, when the world was in the throes of war, a secret Anglo-French document called the Sykes-Picot Agreement casually and carelessly divided up the Middle East among colonial powers. It might sound like one of those obscure historical references you’ve long forgotten from a high school history class lesson on World War

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Mohammad Abbas, Egyptian Revolutionary, Comes To America

Three years after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, one of the revolution’s young stars met with US officials in Washington and toured Boston.

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By Charles M. Sennott

BOSTON – Mohammad Abbas looked out over Boston Harbor and saw the history of the American Revolution. On a cold, clear day last week, he gazed at the white spire of Old North Church, where in 1775 two lanterns signaled the arrival of British troops by sea, and beyond that Abbas spotted the Bunker Hill Monument where the revolutionary militias

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