The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" id="mwyg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic" id="mwyw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Third Republic">French Third Republic</a> sign the secret wartime <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes-Picot_Agreement" id="mwzA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sykes-Picot Agreement">Sykes-Picot Agreement</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioning_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" id="mwzQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire">partitioning former Ottoman territories</a> such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" id="mwzg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" id="mwzw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Syria">Syria</a>.