as well as in the Middle East. The Museum of the Armies, set in Paris's imposing Invalides complex built in the 17th century under Louis XIV, has brought together rare documents and artefacts ...

The Paris Conference of 1919, where the final post-war peace treaty was reached ... also in secret talks with France to share out the Middle East between them, as set out in the Sykes-Picot ...

Millions in Middle ... East suffered in WWI, but region largely shrugs off centenary. A look at what happened in 1918 and after. King Faisal I of Iraq leads a delegation at Versailles, during the ...

Empires would fall, regions reconfigure, new countries form: the end of World War I overhauled the global balance of power and redrew the maps of Europe and the Middle East. Here is an overview.

PARIS, France — Empires would fall, regions reconfigure, new countries form: the end of World War I overhauled the global balance of power and redrew the maps of Europe and the Middle East.