Despite Lawrence of Arabia’s promise, the British and French divided key Ottoman territories into their own mandates at the San Remo conference. Through the Sykes-Picot agreement, the British ...

Below, The Independent looks at where the British, French and the Americans have a presence across the Middle East. The UK has three permanent military sites in the Middle East, as well as an RAF base ...

With the conclusion of the sessions of the Permanent Mandates Commission here the controversay between the Commission and the British Government on the question of the mandated territories ...

An inquiry into the operation of the general Mandates system will be required if the British government does not now change its recently formulated policy in Palestine, Senator Anatole de Monzie ...